PART 25 · YOU ARE NOT ALONE

Allied initiatives

The organisations fighting this in courtrooms and parliaments, and the projects keeping the receipts.

Fight Chat Controlfightchatcontrol.eu
Citizen-led platform (anonymous collective): MEP contact tool, per-member-state position tracking, 1.0 vs 2.0 comparison. Relaunched for every vote.
Stop Scanning Me · EDRistopscanningme.eu
Coalition of 60+ organisations: 200,000+ signature petition, open letter grown from 300 to 450 scientists, joint letter of 133 NGOs.
Patrick Breyer · chatcontrol.eupatrick-breyer.de
The former Pirate MEP who coined "Chat Control". The reference chronicle of the file, vote by vote, document by document, since 2020.
EDRiedri.org
The European digital rights network (50+ NGOs). Legal analysis, Brussels advocacy, campaign coordination.
La Quadrature du Netlaquadrature.net
Since 2008: CJEU litigation (the 2020 retention ruling), the Technopolice campaign, analysis of French surveillance laws.
noybnoyb.eu
Max Schrems’ NGO: systematic GDPR litigation that brought down two EU-US transfer deals (Schrems I and II).
EFFeff.org
Thirty years of litigation and tools (Jewel v. NSA, Certbot, Privacy Badger, Rayhunter) and the Surveillance Self-Defense guide.
Signal Foundationsignal.org
Pledged to leave the EU rather than install scanning. Meta/WhatsApp (Oct 2025) and Threema ("all options") followed with opposition.

EFF · NSA Spying Timelinensa-timeline.eff.org
US surveillance chronology 1791-2015, built on the Jewel v. NSA evidence record: every entry dated and sourced. The receipts model our Precedents section borrows.
Atlas of Surveillanceatlasofsurveillance.org
14,900+ documented police deployments across 6,000+ US jurisdictions (drones, face recognition, IMSI catchers…), compiled by 1,000+ students and volunteers. Geographic rather than chronological.
Technopolicetechnopolice.fr
La Quadrature’s 2019 campaign documenting the "Safe City" city by city, company by company: procurement records, participatory forum, leak channel.
OONIooni.org
The largest open dataset on internet censorship: millions of measurements since 2012, 200+ countries, CC-licensed data and a public API. Censorship, proven in real time.
Digital Violence · Forensic Architectureforensic-architecture.org
The interactive map of the Pegasus/NSO ecosystem: export licenses, infections, and the physical consequences for the people targeted.
Surveillance Watchsurveillancewatch.io
Interactive map of the spyware industry: who builds, who funds, who buys.
NetBlocksnetblocks.org
Real-time observatory of internet shutdowns and blocking, country by country, incident by incident.
Big Brother Awardsbigbrotherawards.de
Since 2000, the annual "award" for the worst privacy offenders (editions in several countries): a chronicle by example, year after year.