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
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...
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...
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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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
Reflections on DFF’s First Law Clinic
We were thrilled to host our first law clinic through a series of online sessions between experts and clinic participants earlier this year. This clinic is part of the Digital Rights are Charter Rights thematic area of digiRISE, a project funded by
Upcoming events
This event is a follow-up to our previous Collective Action for Platform Accountability Workshop held in Berlin in September. It will feature expert-led and peer-driven discussions on key topics related to collective redress, in particular quantification of damages and tech evidence gathering. The discussions will focus on strategising ways to hold Big Tech platforms accountable for the collective harms they enable and exacerbate, as well as identifying opportunities for cross-disciplinary and cross-jurisdictional collaborations among CSOs and practitioners.