Advancing digital rights in Europe
What we do
DFF funds three types of activities: litigation, pre-litigation, and post-litigation. We accept grant applications through regular calls for applications, which are announced on our grants page.
DFF facilitates events and develops resources to support organisations and individuals in pursuing litigation to advance digital rights.
Our Grantmaking Case Studies
Association Stronger Together Skopje believe that the North Macedonia Ministry of Health’s data system, MojTermin leads to medical data of patients being processed and accessed by all medical professionals, without...
In January 2019, the EU’s European Commission granted adequacy to Japan for its data protection laws, allowing personal data to flow freely between the EU and Japan. The adequacy decision...
In Serbia, the Law on Social Card was adopted in 2021, establishing an electronic register containing the data of beneficiaries of social protection schemes, and enabling automated processing of data...
Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) and I Have Rights, a refugee law clinic based in Samos, Greece, are preparing for litigation challenging the technology and surveillance infrastructure of the Samos...
The Greek law on retention of electronic communications metadata (Law 3917/2011) was not revised following a ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidating the EU...
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is supposed to give users a free choice as to whether or not they agree to the collection of their personal data. However, when...
Campaign Against Homophobia are supporting two LGBTQI+ activists in litigation up to the European Court of Human Rights to challenge the lack of practical tools to fight against the excessive...
Based on research carried out by Tracking Exposed (now rebranded into AI Forensics) since 2019, privacy activists have lodged complaints before the data protection authorities of Italy and Cyprus alleging...
Association Taxi Project 2.0 carried out pre-litigation research to support the preparation of a complaint(s) against ride-sharing companies in Spain. Taxi Project has been analysing the behaviour of dynamic pricing...
In Spain, the data of millions of freelance workers is shared unlawfully by the registrar of freelance workers and the tax authorities with other public authorities, who then repurpose the...
Our Community Strengthening & Support Projects
Our goal is to initiate a process that challenges the structural causes of oppression in order to work towards a digital rights field in which all groups in society have their voices heard and which works to protect the digital rights of all.
DFF launched an initiative to support the work of racial, social, and economic justice organisations in the digital context.
Our aim is to increase awareness of the potential of the EU Charter of fundamental rights in the defence and protection of digital rights, to conduct capacity building, and to strengthen the knowledge and ability of different stakeholders in enforcing digital rights using strategic litigation.
DFF develops resources, organises convenings, meetings and workshops that help to improve the strategic litigation skills of the community of organisations and individuals working on digital rights in Europe.
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We are launching the first DFF digital rights virtual law clinic
The first DFF digital rights virtual drop-in law clinic is taking place in March and April 2024. The clinic will host sixteen sessions during which you will have the opportunity to interact with digital rights strategic litigation experts from across
Breaking the Mould: DFF’s Journey to a New Leadership Model
A wise person once said, “If you always do what you have always done, you’ll always get what you have always got.” Over the past few years, we at the Digital Freedom Fund (DFF) have been reflecting on how we
Digital Freedom Fund – Winter 2024 update on new grants
In November 2023, we decided on our latest group of grant recipients, approving ten grants worth around EUR 370,000 supporting litigation to advance digital rights in Europe. This included reaching the major milestone of 100 grants made since we started
Upcoming events
During this exclusive three-day consultation and feedback workshop, litigators and collective redress experts from diverse jurisdictions will converge. Together, we will delve into strategic discussions on using collective redress mechanisms to advance digital and Charter rights litigation.
This workshop is a crucial component of the digiRISE project, and we are offering it as an invite-only platform for collaborative engagement. If you’re keen to participate, kindly contact Alexandra at alexandra@digitalfreedomfund.org to express your interest.
We collaborate with external consultants to enhance our team’s expertise and capacity.
We warmly welcome individuals with experience in the following areas to get in touch with us: