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...
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...
Across Europe, migration enforcement increasingly relies on detection measures embedded in everyday administrative and service contexts, including healthcare, education, housing and social services, or public spaces. Detection measures are often...
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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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
Celebrating nine years of advancing digital justice
Today, we’re celebrating 9 years of DFF — nine years of working towards a world where everyone can fully enjoy their human rights in digital spaces. Nine years ago, we often had to start by explaining what we meant by “digital rights”. At
DFF funds 16 new legal actions for digital rights – 2026 mid-year update on new grants
In June, we approved 16 new grants worth EUR 500,000 supporting legal action and research to advance digital rights in Europe. Scroll down to see the full list of new grantee partners. A major milestone is that we have now