Malta has announced that a Bill will be presented to the House of Parliament introducing four digital civil rights related to online behaviour, namely the right to unrestricted access to the internet, the right to information and freedom of expression on the internet and the right to decide what information to share on the internet.
In a Bill that has been described as revolutionary, the Maltese government is set on upholding its reputation as a stable jurisdiction that facilitates the provision of services by the increasing number of companies that are establishing themselves in Malta, notably within the financial services and gaming industries.
The announcement of this Bill was made as Malta launched a call for proposals on the setting up of a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network to strengthen further the national ICT and internet infrastructure, which has been ranked amongst the best ten countries in studies of the quality of broadband internet connections around the world, beating countries such as the United States the UK and Germany.
