The article analyses if restrictions on business during the quarantines were proportionate and legitimate. The authors of this article argue that the forced closure of businesses during quarantine in its essence resembles the institute of taking private property ownership rights for public needs rather than restricting the freedom of economic activity because activities have been suspended entirely instead of merely being subject to certain operational restrictions. Such restrictions may be imposed only in exceptional cases and in the form of a law. It would be in line to consider proportionate compensations for businesses’ losses due to forcible closure from the State.

This article analyses child data protection on the Internet and in the context of modern technology. Article discusses Problems of legal regulation in Lithuania and other European Union countries. The protection of children’s data faces the following challenges: 1) how and what form the consent, which is obligatory under the GDPR, of the child to the processing of his or her data should be provided; 2) the issue of parents’ virtual consent to process their child’s data; 3) processing of the child’s data on the Internet; 4) problematic aspects of facial recognition technologies, examples.