Solidarity

We make a database.
These people make sure you still own what you put in it.

Our fight is the freedom to think and build freely with your own data. Anything else is permission.

The other fights — open platforms, the right to repair, the right not to be surveilled, the right to own the software you bought — are being fought by people who do it full-time, for free. Here’s who we stand with.

We publicly back 10 campaigns and link out on this page.

01 · Open Platforms

Keep the ground beneath your software buildable.

Platforms that lock down at the operator level don’t just limit what users can do — they limit what you can build on top, sell, and support. These campaigns fight for the right to run code and hardware you own.

↗ Anti-lockdown · Sept 2026

Keep Android Open

keepandroidopen.org

Google is moving to block sideloading of unregistered apps on Android in September 2026. This campaign coordinates developers, users and regulators to push back before the deadline.

Sign & spread → ↗ Right to repair

Right to Repair Europe

repair.eu

180+ organisations pushing for laws that let you actually fix the hardware you own — from phones to farm equipment. If a manufacturer can brick a device post-purchase, you don’t own it.

Back the coalition → ↗ Digital ownership

Stop Killing Games

stopkillinggames.com

When a publisher shuts the servers off, the game you bought becomes unplayable — and in EU law, often still ‘licensed to you’. This EU Citizens’ Initiative wants that ended.

Sign the initiative →

02 · Privacy & Sovereignty

Scanning everything isn’t safety. It’s infrastructure for the wrong future.

Mass-surveillance proposals keep coming back under new names. These groups are the ones reading every draft regulation so you don’t have to — and stopping the worst of them.

↗ Anti-surveillance

Fight Chat Control

fightchatcontrol.eu

EU proposals to scan every private message — even end-to-end encrypted ones — for illegal content. Sounds reasonable until you read how the scanning works. This campaign translates the proposals into plain language and organises opposition.

Read the briefing → ↗ Digital rights · EU

La Quadrature du Net

laquadrature.net

French digital-rights advocates who have been at this for 15+ years. They take governments, police forces and biometric-surveillance vendors to court on behalf of users — and win.

Support their work → ↗ Data sovereignty · FOSS

Framasoft — Dégooglisons Internet

degooglisons-internet.org

A French non-profit that runs free, self-hosted alternatives to every major SaaS you can name, to prove you can live outside Google. This is what data portability looks like in practice.

See the alternatives →

03 · Free Software

Code you can’t read, change, or audit is code you can’t trust.

These are the campaigns that still do the unglamorous work of pushing for software freedom by default — not as a toggle buried in settings, but as the starting point.

↗ Open source · Public sector

Public Money? Public Code!

publiccode.eu

If it’s paid for with tax money, it should be free software. FSFE’s long-running push to make that the default procurement rule for European public institutions. Dozens of cities have signed.

Sign the open letter → ↗ Anti-DRM · Digital ownership

Defective by Design

defectivebydesign.org

The FSF’s 20-year campaign against Digital Restrictions Management — the tech that stops you lending, backing up or even just playing the things you bought. Currently tracking streaming DRM and hardware attestation.

Join the opposition →

04 · Digital Rights

The institutional legal weight behind the rest of this page.

These two go to court, organise congressional pressure, and run the amicus briefs that keep bad tech policy from being rubber-stamped. Unsexy. Essential.

↗ Digital rights · Litigation

Electronic Frontier Foundation

eff.org

The legal shield for the rest of us. Thirty-five years of suing governments and surveillance vendors over your digital rights, with the courtroom wins to show for it.

Browse active campaigns → ↗ Net neutrality · Advocacy

Fight for the Future

fightforthefuture.org

The team behind Battle for the Net and ongoing pushes against facial recognition and upload filters. They wrote the playbook for turning developer outrage into regulatory pressure.

See current fights →

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