Legal Cases
Strategic litigiation is at the core of Data Rights’ actions.
Building upon half a decade of challenging France’s surveillance and data retention laws, Data Rights will use legal actions to advance data rights and promote cybersecurity.
📕 Closed Cases
France’s wireless communications surveillance loophole
This case at the French Constitutional Council put an end to the loophole which, since 1991, had been exempting all wireless communications surveillance of legal safeguards. Data Rights members contributed to the legal challenge.
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Privacy International’s state hacking case
Data Rights and French Data Network were granted the right to intervene at the ECtHR in support of Privacy International and five Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
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Real-time interception of data during France’s state of emergency
The Constitutional Council declared provisions of the French Emergency Act unconstitutional. Data Rights members participated in the case.
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