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
BIICL’s goal was to file a formal complaint to the European Commission demanding that they open an investigation into Meta on the basis that Meta are in breach of EU...
Association IUS Omnibus, supported by Spanish law firm Suderow Fernandez Abogadas, plan to file a class action lawsuit against Flo Health, Inc., in Spain, aiming to protect the right to...
Based on research carried out by Tracking Exposed (now rebranded into Reversing Works), privacy activists lodged a complaint before the data protection authority (DPA) of Italy. In November 2024, after...
The case addresses unwarranted surveillance of personal devices and communications using Pegasus-type spyware by the Spanish State against civil society and, in particular, against one of the lawyers spied on...
Defend Digital Me undertook both a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office and a judicial review of the UK Department for Education, aiming to stop its attendance tracker trial programme....
Háttér Society are preparing for litigation challenging the blocking of access to online LGBTQI+ content in Hungary. This relates to the adoption in 2021 of legislation that bans access of...
front-LEX is requesting the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to outlaw the European Border and Coast Guard Agency’s (Frontex’s) policy of systematically sharing the geolocation data of...
CIJ is preparing for litigation enforcing the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) to address gender-based censorship by Meta platforms and other Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs). CIJ found that Meta...
Partners Serbia are challenging the illegal acquisition of automatic facial recognition equipment by education and health institutions in Serbia. The litigation will start with motions for the initiation of an...
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...
Our Current Community Strengthening & Support Projects
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.
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.
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Winter 2025 update on new grants
In November 2024, we decided on our latest group of grant recipients, approving 10 grants worth just under EUR 400,000 supporting litigation to advance digital rights in Europe. We also approved funding of EUR 65,000 to support additional instances of
Presenting the Pathways to Justice toolkit and the Collective Redress database
The digiRISE project, launched in October 2022, is concluding its scope of work at the end of October 2024. We excited to present to you the final outputs, a result of our months-long work, nourishing discussions and collaborations with experts
What’s Next: A Sneak Peek at upcoming digiRISE publications and activities!
The digiRISE project, launched in October 2022, is marking its last weeks of activities before formally concluding its scope of work at the end of October 2024. Over the course of the next week, we will be publishing the multiple outputs
Upcoming events
Movement Lawyering Strategic Litigation Retreat
This in-person invite-only event is part of our collaboration with Weaving Liberation. The aim of the retreat is to continue to advocate for and build capacity around movement lawyering and community-centred strategic litigation amongst the digital rights community. By bringing together and leveraging each organisation’s expertise and networks, the partnership also aims to further explore how our work can be mutually reinforcing.
The Retreat falls under DFF’s current Platform Accountability project, and is part of our broader Community Strengthening and Support (CSS) programme, which aims to support those working to advance digital rights through capacity-building and knowledge-sharing events and resources. This is the third edition in the series of strategic litigation retreats, following two previous ones held in Athens in 2023 and in the German Alps in 2024.
We extend our gratitude to Luminate Strategic Initiatives for their generous support in making this event possible.
Platform Accountability Digital Environmental Justice Workshop
This in-person workshop aims to bring together different organisations working on digital environmental justice and platform accountability issues to collectively brainstorm and start collaborating more on possible litigation and quasi-judicial avenues for holding big tech platforms and other corporations accountable for human rights violations and environmental degradation at the intersection of digital rights and environmental justice. The workshop is part of our Community Strengthening and Support (CSS) Programme and is fully funded by Luminate Strategic Initiatives.