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
Open Rights Group, Migrants’ Rights Network and Migrants At Work sought to determine how a test claim could be brought to challenge the Home Office’s use of automated digital identity...
In October 2024, La Quadrature du Net (LQDN) along with 14 other organisations began litigation against a risk-scoring algorithm used by the CNAF (Caisse nationale d’allocations familiales), the family branch...
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...
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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100 grants across 30 countries: Reflecting on litigation success in the Digital Rights Community
We are very excited to publish our report, Highlighting Litigation Success in the Digital Rights Community, a report that summarises and analyses the impact achieved through strategic litigation we have supported between 2018 and 2024. In this blog, Thomas Vink
Checking in on distributed leadership at DFF
In June 2024, DFF moved to a new distributed leadership model. We are pleased to update that the new structure has been working well. As part of this new structure, our areas of work are distributed into circles, and since
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
Upcoming events
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.