Advancing digital rights through strategic litigation
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
(RE)Claim is taking litigation challenging illegal and discriminatory data processing by police. According to (RE)Claim this data is used to criminalise and harass racialised boys (starting as early as 11...
The Prostitution Information Center (PIC) claims that WebIQ is operating a data-scrapping tool that produces a list of potential victims of sex trafficking and of children selling sex. PIC state...
Victim Advocates International (VAI) is supporting a number of members of the Rohingya community to take litigation against Meta in Ireland. The litigation relates to Facebook’s role in spreading the...
In Slovenia, the Act on Urgent Measures to Ensure Public Security (“Sutar Law”) was adopted in November 2025 and entered into force in January 2026. According to the Roma Feminist...
Leitmotiv and PILP are seeking to accelerate local datacentre activism, taking confrontations with hyperscale datacentres in the major digital infrastructure market of the Netherlands as a starting point. They want...
Rete Lenford are preparing a legal strategy to address systemic discrimination faced by transgender individuals in Italy due to the mismanagement of personal data by public healthcare entities. In the...
This project stems from the experiences of survivors who came to No Es Terapia after being subjected to conversion practices in Spain. “Conversion therapies” are practices aimed at changing a...
Poradňa are preparing legal action challenging discrimination against the Roma ethnic minority in Slovakia, with a focus on access to public transport ticketing systems that require digital tools and skills....
Institute for Human Rights Skopje are challenging the unlawful practices of the police in North Macedonia of creating, retaining, and informally exchanging small-scale criminal and intelligence-related files on citizens. There...
Lex Collective are preparing criminal complaints before French courts concerning online hate speech, ethnic incitement, and gender-based threats disseminated and amplified via social media in the context of the ongoing...
Our Community Hubs
The Hub focuses on legal strategies to ensure that the development and deployment of AI and related infrastructure centres human rights and environmental justice.
We developed the Digital Democracy Hub in order to enable activists to collaborate and develop legal strategies that result in stronger human rights protections that put us first and hold Big Tech and governments accountable for technology-driven harms.
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DFF’s AI Hub: One Year of Centering Human Rights and the Environment in the Legal Response to AI and Digital Infrastructure
Since we launched the AI and Digital Infrastructure Hub (AI Hub) in June 2025, AI tools have increasingly become household names and a polarising issue on many fronts. Every industry and sector is actively planning how to implement them in
Building Power for Queer Justice online: Introducing our LGBTI Rights Hub
In Hungary in 2025, parliament banned Pride events and authorised facial recognition to identify attendees. In Uganda in 2024, the courts upheld the country’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, imposing penalties of life imprisonment or death. In Argentina in 2025, President Javier Milei
Ensuring Safe Online Spaces for Children
An online and technology-driven world increasingly comes with many benefits for children and young people – but also harms: manipulated attention, surveilled activities, sexual predators, and extreme content like the “manosphere.” So when it comes to children’s rights online, a