Digital Freedom Fund focuses on advancing digital rights in Europe. It provides funding for activities related to litigation, pre-litigation, and post-litigation in the realm of digital rights.

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#DigitalRightsAreHumanRights | The Digital Freedom Fund supports strategic litigation to advance digital rights in Europe. DFF provides financial support and seeks to catalyse collaboration between digital rights activists to enable people to exercise their human rights in digital and networked spaces.

Alexandra Giannopoulou

Development and Monitoring Officer

Vaska Cvetanoska

Adjunct Assistant Professor at American University in Bulgaria

Simona Veleva, PhD

Co-Director and Finance Lead at Digital Freedom Fund

Darrah Hassell

🌍 We’re excited to share a significant resource developed as part of the digiRISE project: a comprehensive Collective Redress Database designed to empower collective action in defense of digital rights under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. We have just published a lot of resources on how ten different EU Member States have implemented collective redress mechanisms. In the Collective Redress Database, you can find: 🔹 Country reports from Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Greece, Croatia, Ireland, Portugal, and Belgium written by our country experts 🔹 Comparative report on the state of collective redress in these jurisdictions 🔹 A comparative tool to quickly uncover convergences and differences between studied jurisdictions Through this database, we map and analyse collective redress mechanisms, practices, and case law across EU Member States, examining everything from early examples to the latest implementations of the EU Representative Actions Directive. Our goal is to provide an essential tool for advocates, legal practitioners, and impacted communities, supporting strategic litigation efforts in the digital sphere and comparing how different countries approach collective redress for digital rights violations. We couldn't have done this work without the support of the Observatory of Class Actions, our country experts Joshka Sellinger, Ali Ighreiz , Maria José Azar-Baud , Anna van Duin 🟥 , Aart Jonkers , Francesca Episcopo , Chiara Angiolini , Stefano Rossetti , Duje Prkut , Duje Kozomara , Anella Buković, Carolina Ramalho dos Santos , Vicky Tzega , Julia Suderow , Clara Fernandez Lopez , Alejandro Martínez Luna, Laura San José Fernández , Catherine Forget , Franck Dumortier , TJ McIntyre ; and the experts drafting the comparative report Maria José Azar-Baud , Ander Maglica , Ianika Tzankova , and Alexandra Giannopoulou . 👉🏿 Explore the full database here: https://lnkd.in/ewni_heW

📅 On November 26-27, we will host the second edition of our Collective Action for Platform Accountability Workshop in Berlin. This workshop aims to provide a collaborative space for the digital rights community to reflect on the collective dimension of digital rights. Participants will explore how to situate collective redress within broader efforts to counter tech-driven fundamental rights violations and develop litigation strategies to hold Big Tech platforms accountable for the harms they create and exacerbate. The workshop will cover a range of topics, with a strong focus on determining and quantifying harm, as well as evidence gathering and the critical role that public interest technologists and tech researchers can play in strengthening collective redress cases. This builds on our previous Tech Community Engagement Programme, which culminated in a Evidence Gathering Report that you can read here: https://lnkd.in/ejumWmVy 🫱🏾🫲🏽 If you would like to learn more or have any ideas on ways to collaborate on these topics, you can reach out to us at projects@digitalfreedomfund.org . We’d love to hear from you! Artwork by: Kruthika N. S.

After two years of multiple collaborations with our network, dedication and continuous expert research, we’re thrilled to announce the final outputs of the digiRISE project! 📌 Here are our recent digiRISE achievements: 🗺️ Country Reports: Insights from experts across Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Greece, Croatia, Ireland, Portugal, and Belgium. Find in-depth, expert country reports on collective redress systems across these ten EU countries, and stay tuned for translations in each native language! 📊 Comparative Analysis: A deep dive into collective redress mechanisms across ten EU jurisdictions, co-authored by experts like our own Dr. Alexandra Giannopoulou , Professor Maria José Azar-Baud , Professor Ianika Tzankova , and Dr. Ander Maglica , highlighting similarities and discrepancies across these national systems. 📚 Pathways to Justice Toolkit: Developed as a practical guide to support your journey through the matrix of decisions for enforcing EU Charter rights in the digital world. https://lnkd.in/eGc9HReS 📂 Explore Our First DFF Collective Redress Database: The database and country reports are now available on our website. Start here to uncover collective redress options in your jurisdiction: https://lnkd.in/ewni_heW If you are interested in further collaborations or more information, reach out at alexandra@digitalfreedomfund.org . 👉🏿 Read more about our digiRISE resources in our latest blog post here: https://lnkd.in/eKqTchmN Artwork by: Kruthika N. S.

🚀 New Resource Alert! 🚀 We're excited to announce the release of our latest research: "Available Judicial Pathways: A compare-and-contrast analysis of ten jurisdictions in the European Union". Despite the EU Charter’s strong potential to protect digital rights and the Court of Justice of the EU’s active role in applying these protections, national-level legal practice often defaults to more general rights in national or international frameworks. Our report explores viable legal pathways available in 10 jurisdictions: Germany, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland, and highlights where and how the EU Charter can play a stronger role in national contexts. This report also ties into our recent work on collective redress mechanisms, providing a holistic view of EU digital rights protections. ➡️ Download the full report here: https://lnkd.in/e-xZeBwx 🖼 Artwork: Kruthika N. S. 🖼 Graphic design: Justina Leston

🎉🎊 We’re excited to share our latest animated video, "Digital Rights are Charter Rights," designed to explore how the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights intersects with our digital lives! The video is based on the "Digital Rights are Charter Rights" essay series, which explains how digital rights are also fundamental rights. With this essay series, we bring a wide range of EU Charter experts to the foreground of digital rights discourse. You can read the essay series in ▪️ English: https://lnkd.in/eg2xC28M ▪️ Spanish: https://lnkd.in/eCWw2SRJ ▪️ French: https://lnkd.in/e_GJ8ECx ✅ Both the video and essays provide information for anyone interested in the opportunities and strategies for applying the EU Charter in digital spaces. You can watch the full video on our website here: https://lnkd.in/exJPG-Zd 🖼 Special thanks to our animator & art director Irene Izquierdo !

🎉 The French version of our "Digital Rights are Charter Rights" essay series is OUT! 🎊 Cette semaine, nous avons publié une série d'essais intitulée « Digital Rights are Charter Rights », qui explique comment les droits numériques sont des droits garantis par la Charte. Chaque essai examine une disposition de la Charte et explique comment elle s'applique et est pertinente pour les environnements numériques et en réseau. Nous tenons à remercier sincèrement nos experts pour avoir partagé leurs connaissances : Anna Mazgal de Wikimedia Europe , romain lanneau de Statewatch , Jens Theilen de l'université Helmut-Schmidt de Hambourg, Raphaële Xenidis de la faculté de droit de Sciences Po , Nadia Benaissa de Bits of Freedom , Ioannis Kouvakas de Privacy International et de Vrije Universiteit Brussel , Giulia Gentile de LSE Law School , Melanie Fink de Leiden Law School , Nawal Mustafa du Stichting PILP , Divij Joshi de UCL , James F. de Worker Info Exchange, Fieke Jansen du critical infrastructure lab , de University of Amsterdam et de Green Screen Climate Justice and Digital Rights Coalition, et Alexandre Biard de BEUC - The European Consumer Organisation . Nous tenons également à remercier notre talentueuse équipe d'artistes pour leur contribution à la série d'essais : Yorgos Konstantinou , Justina Leston , Nicole Snaiderman . Merci pour votre sens artistique et pour votre vision ! Un grand merci également à notre traductrice française, Marie-Céline Pallas, et à Sincère De Talla pour l'édition française. Le projet digiRISE est financé par l'Union européenne. Toutes les opinions exprimées appartiennent aux auteurs. La version complète est disponible ici: https://lnkd.in/e_GJ8ECx

As we approach the end of the digiRISE project, which kicked off back in October 2022, we’re excited to share the outcomes of two years of hard work, collaboration, and learning alongside experts across the EU. 🎉 📌 Coming your way soon: ▪️ Mapping of Collective Redress Mechanisms: a DFF Database ▪️ Collective Redress Country Reports ▪️ Collective Redress Comparative Report ▪️ Available Judicial Pathways Country Reports ▪️ Available Judicial Pathways Comparative Report ▪️ Pathways to Justice Toolkit We will release these resources shortly on our website, so stay tuned! 🌐 🔍 Read more about our next digiRISE outputs in our latest blog post here: https://lnkd.in/dBrKHh4D 🖼 Artwork by: Kruthika N. S.

Earlier this year, we hosted our first law clinic through a series of online sessions between experts and clinic participants. As part of the digiRISE project, funded by the EU CERV Action, we brought together experts and participants from all over Europe to dive deep into the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, focusing on crucial issues like privacy and data protection in the digital age. The goals of our law clinic: ✅ raise awareness of the Charter’s relevance for protecting digital rights; ✅ improve knowledge of judicial pathways to enforce digital Charter rights; ✅ promote the use of collective redress mechanisms to protect digital Charter rights; ✅ provide participants and experts with the opportunity for mutual learning. The response has been great! Participants found the sessions insightful, and our experts enjoyed the flexibility and collaboration. We’re excited to keep building on this and host more clinics soon! If you’re thinking about setting up your own clinic or want to learn more, reach out at alexandra@digitalfreedomfund.org . ➡️ Read the full blog about the law clinic here: https://lnkd.in/e9_HPdqm

Our Co-Director, Nikita Kekana , and Legal Officer, César Manso-Sayao , hosted a session on Strategic Litigation Reimagined for Justice at Team CommUNITY's #GlobalGathering on 27 September 2024. Together with participants working on various digital rights issues, we strategised how the digital rights community can prioritise and fund legal cases that centralise the needs of communities most impacted by digital rights violations from an intersectional approach. Thank you to Team CommUNITY for having us and to all the participants for engaging and sharing their digital rights cases.

🚀 Join our Peer Group for participatory grantmaking! 🚀 🔍 We are excited to pilot the participatory decision-making process for our grantmaking. We are seeking individuals who would like to be part of the Peer Group that will review grant applications in this pilot and decide where our funding should go. The call for expressions of interest is open from 8 October to 23 October. 📝 If you'd like to contribute your insights and experience, please apply with your CV and a short paragraph about why you want to get involved. Due to the time and responsibility involved, all members of the Peer Group will be compensated. ✅ Send your applications here: https://lnkd.in/e2-vNu24 📅 We’re also hosting two “Ask Us Anything” sessions for anyone interested in learning more about the upcoming pilot of participatory decision-making on these days: - Wednesday 16 October, 11:00 CEST - Tuesday 22 October, 12:00 CEST 🎯 Please write us to grants@digitalfreedomfund.org if you want to join one of these calls. Also, let us know if you would like to join a call later at a different time. Depending on demand we can arrange further call slots. 👉🏿 Find more information on how we are transforming our grantmaking here: https://lnkd.in/eKEp7fPU

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