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
According to Human Rights Monitoring Institute (HRMI), in Lithuania in 2019, telecommunications companies were legally required to collect and store users’ personal communications data. This included information about who sent...
5Rights is pressing for investigatory action against a widely-used American app popular among young children worldwide, citing significant safety concerns including inadequate protection of minors from bad actors, high likelihood...
With the support of the 5Rights Foundation, Good Law Project made a submission in May 2025 to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) against Apple and Google app stores...
The Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA) recently came into force, creating an elaborate system of rules for digital services, such as social media or online marketplaces....
AI systems rely on significant labour for their training and deployment. There are millions of data workers in the world who feed AI systems by producing, categorising and correcting data....
The Grant supports NOVACT and SUDs to research how Spanish companies can be held legally accountable for their role in the digital surveillance and repression of the Palestinian people, and...
Accept is preparing for litigation related to Romania’s implementation of digital identity systems and their violation of EU law. They will develop a litigation strategy ensuring the protection of LGBTI+...
The Lambda Warsaw Association is preparing for litigation in Poland related to data protection and data transfer issues experienced by transgender people in the process of and after getting their...
ERRC state that the digitalisation of public services in Albania and Bulgaria has amplified systemic inequalities, disproportionately affecting marginalised communities, particularly Roma. While these initiatives were introduced to modernise administrative...
This grant supports a case by Netherlands-based activist, Frank van der Linde. The case involves an application to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to consider the...
Our Community work
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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Let’s take AI to Court
In early October, DFF once again hosted activists at our annual strategic litigation retreat in a former healing sanctuary at the foot of the German Alps. Over three days, we came together to deepen our understanding of strategic litigation, sharpen
Digital Freedom Fund – summer 2025 update on new grants
Illustration by Berenice Alvarez and Laura Lopez In June 2025, we decided on our latest group of grant recipients, approving 11 grants worth around EUR 380,000 supporting litigation to advance digital rights in Europe. We’ve now made over 130 grants
Community-led decision making – reflections on the pilot to change DFF’s grantmaking
Illustration by Berenice Alvarez and Laura Lopez Between December 2024 and May 2025 we piloted a new review and decision-making process for our grants. A group of ten people representing the wider digital rights community (the Peer Group) reviewed all