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
Amnesty International Netherlands carried out pre-litigation research preparing for litigation to challenge the unlawful and unregulated online monitoring by police and/or municipalities in the Netherlands. The research was completed in...
BSWC are carrying out research looking at how the deplatforming and digital exclusion of Sex Workers—especially those who are Black, migrant, trans, and disabled—constitutes a violation of fundamental rights under...
TGEU will support efforts across multiple European countries to advance the rights of marginalised trans communities and their rights to recognition of private life in the EU – for many...
Reversing.works will identify the most effective legal strategy to litigate data protection violations affecting platform workers engaged through intermediaries in Germany’s food delivery sector. The research will strengthen litigation by:·...
Foxglove, with the Independent Publishers Alliance, is pushing UK and European competition regulators to intervene and stop Google from using AI tools to scrape the work of independent news reporters...
SLAPP Watch Coalition are involved in litigation to challenge blocking orders on a Kurdish-language news portal. The are aiming for a Constitutional Court or European Court of Human Rights ruling...
Urgence Homophobie is preparing strategic litigation to challenge systematic violations of trans refugees’ digital identity rights in France. According to Urgence Homophobie, in a context of full administrative digitalisation creating...
Coalition Margins are preparing a strategic legal response to the growing use of anonymous Facebook pages to orchestrate gender-based violence, hate speech, and coordinated attacks on civic activists in North...
Mousse are challenging the use of online forms requiring people to indicate whether they consider themselves to be ‘Mr’ or ‘Ms’, which allow public and private bodies to collect data...
Partners Serbia will implement a litigation and advocacy project that puts Serbia, and the Western Balkans, on a rights-centred path toward the EU Digital Single Market (DSM). In June 2024...
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.
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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Distributed Leadership: Reiteration as a Source of Agility in Turbulent Times
Illustration by Berenice Alvarez and Laura Lopez Two years into our journey with distributed leadership at Digital Freedom Fund, we’ve moved solidly from theory to lived practice. What began as a structural shift has evolved into something more fundamental: a
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia: Strategic Litigation as a Tool for Resistance
This International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, we are proud to share the voices of some of our grantee partners and how they are using strategic litigation to advance the digital rights of LQBTQI+ people around the world. “Strategic
One year of community-led grant decision making – how it’s going so far
Illustration by Berenice Alvarez and Laura Lopez Throughout 2025 we piloted a new review and decision-making process for our grants with a group representing the wider digital rights community (the Peer Group). This new process seeks to move decision making