The recent amendments aim to strengthen legal clarity and information security, but raise concerns about the scope of regulation, proportionality, and potential impact on media freedom.

While the law is an important step, CSOs warn that a key commitment to protect human rights defenders' risks being quietly absorbed into a narrower legislative instrument instead of the dedicated law the Government promised.

Recent tax code changes give authorities the right to verify if a legal entity is located at its registered legal address and the power to suspend transactions on its accounts and e-wallets if not.