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What is automated data analysis? Searching through, analysing and linking millions of data points with a single click of the mouse: information from police databases, connection data from telephone surveillance, mobile phone content extracted from devices, and perhaps even information from social…

Berlin, 26.04.2022 – The European Court of Justice today announced its ruling on the admissibility of Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive under the Charter of Fundamental Rights. In it, it declares that the legal norm is fundamentally compatible with the right to freedom of expression and…

Berlin, July 20 2023 – Today, the Society for Civil Rights (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V. - GFF) and an individual Facebook user have filed a lawsuit against Meta before the Passau district court against Metas practice of scanning private messages send via the Facebook Messenger. Meta…

Berlin, May 28, 2026 – The Society for Civil Rights (GFF) today filed a criminal complaint against persons unknown, together with German-Vietnamese journalist Trung Khoa Lê, regarding an attempted spyware attack. Lê is the editor of the important Vietnamese news site Thoibao.de, which he runs…

Berlin, 07.09.2021 – The Society for Civil Rights e.V. (GFF), supported by Arcadia, is expanding its activities related to strengthening the fundamental right to academic freedom. Since the inception of the control © project in April 2020, GFF has increased its commitment to promoting the…

Memes, mash-ups, fan fiction: These and other forms of social communication are what make the internet so appealing to many. For a long time, however, they existed in a grey area of copyright law. Today, the Society for Civil Rights publishes an English translation of the expert opinion "The…

GFF and Campact support organizations that could lose or have already lost their non-profit status due to their work against right-wing extremism. Affected organizations can contact GFF to determine whether support is possible. We then put them in touch with specialized law firms. Campact covers…

What does “non-profit status” mean for an association - and why does the current legal situation lead to great legal uncertainty for politically engaged civil society? The most important facts at a glance. What does “non-profit status” mean for an association? For many associations and…

With two legal opinions and a study, we have examined how non-profit law is structured in Germany, what this means for political engagement and where there is an urgent need for reform. Legal opinions on the political participation of civil society organizations What requirements arise from…