A/HRC/44/49 (c) Strongly promoting and protecting, and refraining from interference with, the independent media’s role of informing the public and holding officials accountable for their statements and actions; (d) Ensuring that people have the tools to confront and correct disinformation, and in particular avoiding taking the kinds of steps that will deter the sharing of critical information at a time of crisis; (e) Doing what is necessary to trace the development of the disease – but only what is necessary. The law is flexible enough to tolerate errors and inadvertent overreach at a time of crisis, but it is not so flexible as to condone the discretion to conduct surveillance without oversight, without limit and without resort to fundamental principles of legality and necessity; (f) Ensuring accountability, such that no State is free to use this public health crisis for unlawful purposes beyond the scope of the health threat. 19