Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Jun 2024 | Věra Jourová Vice-President | Elections and disinformation | — |
| 10 Jun 2024 | Věra Jourová Vice-President | Elections and disinformation | SRC |
Mission & Goals
The Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V. (Society for Civil Rights, GFF) is a donor-funded organization that defends fundamental and human rights by legal means. The organization promotes democracy and civil society, protects against disproportionate surveillance and advocates for equal rights and social participation for everyone. To that end, the GFF conducts strategic litigation, lodges constitutional complaints against laws that violate fundamental rights and contributes its legal expertise to social debates. The Berlin-based non-profit organization was founded in 2015 and is funded primarily through individual donations and the contributions of its supporting members.
EU Legislative Interests
• Delegated Acts on a Single Market for Digital Services (Digital Services Act) • Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (EU Copyright Directive) • Proposal for a Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse (Chat control) •. Proposal for a Digital Omnibus Regulation • Proposal for a Digital Fairness Act
Communication Activities
• Participation in and hosting of talks, debates and conferences (eg https://freiheitsrechte.org/themen/demokratie/urheberrecht/conference-article17-communia) • Publication of articles and blog entries (eg https://freiheitsrechte.org/en/themen/digitale-grundrechte/chatkontrolle) • Publication of legal opinions (eg https://freiheitsrechte.org/uploads/publications/Demokratie/Article17_Fundamental_Rights-Gesellschaft_fuer_Freiheitsrechte_2020_Projekt_Control_C.pdf) • Project control © on freedom of communication and copyright (https://freiheitsrechte.org/en/themen/demokratie/copyright-law) • Co-authoring of regular policy briefs by the F5 alliance addressing members of the German Bundestag (https://buendnis-f5.de/)
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
https://freiheitsrechte.org/en/netzwerk
Organisation Members
https://freiheitsrechte.org/en/netzwerk