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Crowdfunding: GFF goes to court against Tinder control by public employers - we need your financial support! On 25 May 2022, the Federal Administrative Court confirmed that the Bundeswehr may reprimand a female officer for the content of her dating profile. The court stated that the search for…

The EU Commission has presented a draft regulation that is to lay down rules for preventing and combating sexual violence against children (Chat Control Regulation). The planned regulation raises such significant fundamental rights concerns that the GFF is joining the debate while the draft is…

The NRW Police Act empowers the police to automatically analyze large amounts of data from a wide variety of sources in order to prevent crime. The big data software Gotham by the company Palantir is being used to create extensive and detailed personality profiles of citizens - even of those…

Together with Gabrielle Lebreton, the GFF successfully took legal action against gender discrimination. During a visit to the "Plansche" water playground, the plaintiff was prohibited from sunbathing topless by security and the police, who were later called in. In January 2022, she and her lawyer…

North Rhine-Westphalia has passed an assembly law that massively restricts the fundamental right to freedom of assembly. The law criminalizes peaceful behavior by demonstrators, expands video surveillance, and introduces a total ban on gatherings on highways that is unprecedented nationwide.…

In 2020, we obtained a high-profile ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court, which declared large parts of the foreign surveillance by the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) to be unconstitutional. As a result, the BND Act was amended by the legislature and came into force on 1 January 2022.…

In December 2021, Facebook deleted the page of the Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf (English: Movie Workshop Düsseldorf). The association of filmmakers has made it its mission to spark people's enthusiasm about art and culture through film screenings and discussions. Together with the Filmwerkstatt and the…

In January 2023, the editorial offices of Radio Dreyeckland and the flats of two journalists were searched. The reason for the searches and the confiscation of several laptops was an article by the station which linked to an archive of linksunten.indymedia. The internet platform had been banned in…

Together with activist Lars Ritter, we filed a lawsuit at the Berlin Administrative Court in June 2023, which was upheld in March 2025. The court declared the use of pain compliance holds during a peaceful protest to be unlawful. This ruling is a great victory for freedom of assembly. For the first…

Together with the Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - League of Anti-Fascists (VVN-BdA), we filed a complaint with the Administrative Court of Berlin in July 2023. With the lawsuit, we want to have the court declare that the ban on the activist leaving the country was unlawful and…