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Strengthening Digital Security Through Robust Vulnerability Management The SpywareShield Initiative is committed to closing security gaps that enable spyware infiltration. Systemic vulnerabilities in digital infrastructure, expose activists, journalists, and civil society to surveillance abuse.…

We support a lawsuit against the use of pain compliance holds before the Ansbach Administrative Court. In August 2023, the police used pain compliance holds against our plaintiff during a protest, even though he was completely peaceful. This targeted and unnecessary infliction of pain is clearly…

Together with the street magazine Hinz&Kunzt and two affected individuals, the GFF filed a lawsuit against the Hamburg S-Bahn at the Hamburg-St. Georg District Court and against the Hamburg Hochbahn at the Hamburg-Mitte District Court in March 2025. The Hamburg S-Bahn and Hochbahn Hamburg are…

Together with affected asylum seekers, we are taking legal action against the exclusion from benefits, which violates to fundamental rights. According to a new regulation, refugees for whose asylum procedure another EU country is responsible under EU law (Dublin procedure) are to be completely…

The Federal Police is massively restricting the use of its publicly accessible annual report from 2023, thereby hindering civil society, science and press work - a clear violation of the open data principle. Together with an open data expert, we have filed a lawsuit with the Potsdam Administrative…

TheGFF supports investigative journalist Carsten Janz in the appeal proceedings before the Hamburg Higher Regional Court. Janz had published two short passages from a court order in an article in 2023. He was subsequently sentenced in two instances to a fine of 40 daily rates for prohibited…

A. Einleitung und Begriffe 1. Allgemein Mit dem Betrieb der Belegdatenbank AfD-Verbot (im Folgenden „Belegdatenbank“ genannt) verarbeiten wir personenbezogene Daten. Diese werden von uns vertraulich behandelt und nach den geltenden Gesetzen – insbesondere der Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGVO),…

Language restrictions at protests are a serious infringement of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and violate the ban on discrimination. Freedom of assembly protects the right to express one's opinion with others on the street. If German and English are prescribed as the language of…

Together with the complainant, journalist Hendrik Torner, and his lawyer Gül Pinar (TWP Strafrechtskanzlei), we are lodging a complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court: the police only need initial suspicion of a criminal offence to comprehensively access and analyse smartphones — there is…