Re-Imagining Cryptography and Privacy (ReCAP) Workshop


The Re-Imagining Cryptography and Privacy (ReCAP) Workshop explores the ways in which cryptography and privacy intersect with society toward designing, creating, and sustaining technologies that explicitly benefit marginalized communities. We welcome work and perspectives from social scientists, humanities scholars, community organizations, and technologists. The focus of the ReCAP Workshop is Re-Imagination: identifying the aspects of cryptography and privacy technology production that contribute to marginalization, and solidifying approaches, ideas, and designs that center marginalized voices, resist toxic aspects of technology production and work toward dismantling systems of marginalization. The ReCAP Workshop seeks to build and sustain a diverse community that is committed to the broadening of access to the field and engaging in socially-conscious work.

ReCAP 2025 is a hybrid workshop from June 3-4, 2025 that will take place physically in The City College of New York, in Steinman Hall Room ST-124 (275 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031) and virtually on Zoom.



Registration

The workshop is open to all who register. The online registration form has closed. Please email us at recapworkshop@protonmail.com if you would still like to attend and we will provide you the relevant information.


Contributions

Please find the list of contributions organized by session topic below. For contributions from multiple individuals, the speaker's name is underlined. When provided, we have added additional links for speakers.


Schedule

All times are listed in EDT (UTC-4). Schedule may be subject to minor changes. Talks that will be recorded are indicated by the 🎥 icon next to the title name.

Tuesday (June 3, 2025)
Time Activity/Session Title Speaker(s)
8:30-9:30AM Check-In & Breakfast (provided for in-person attendees)
9:30-10:00AM Opening Remarks & Activity ReCAP Organizers
10:00-10:30AM Avoiding the Wrong Kind of Attention: A Look At Privacy Behaviors of Chinese Fandom Communities in a Censored and Surveilled Internet 🎥 Kelly Wang
10:30-10:45AM Break
10:45-11:15AM Privacy, Security and Advocacy in the Philippines Mikaela Brough
11:15-11:45AM May Your PETs not Wash Away Your Rights 🎥 Hinako Sugiyama
11:45-12:00PM Break
12:00-12:30M What is a privacy success? 🎥 Glencora Borradaile
12:30-1:00PM The PET Paradox: How Amazon Instrumentalises PETs in Sidewalk to Entrench Its Infrastructural Power 🎥 Thijmen van Gend, Seda Gürses, Donald Jay Bertulfo
1-2:30PM Lunch (on your own)
2:30-3:00PM Societal Foundations of Cryptography Martin R. Albrecht and Rikke Bjerg Jensen
3:00-3:30PM Between Safety and Surveillance: Third-Party Device Monitoring and Student Privacy 🎥 Daniel Flyer, Sam Hafferty, Nitya Nadgir
3:30-5:00PM Small Group Breakouts


Wednesday (June 4, 2025)
Time Activity/Session Title Speaker(s)
8:30-9:30AM Check-In & Breakfast (provided for in-person attendees)
9:30-10:00AM Protocols, not platforms... but the API first! 🎥 Theia Henderson
10:00-10:30AM No One Marches Randomly: A Holistic Rebuild of Protest Mobility Models During Internet Shutdowns 🎥 Cora Rowena Ruiz
10:30-10:45AM Break
10:45-11:15AM Optimizing Versus Organizing: How Data and Communication Tools Reconfigure the Workplace and the Union 🎥 Frederick Reiber
11:15-11:45AM Delete Spotify. Build a Server with Your Friends 🎥 Jack Carrick
11:45-12:00PM Break
12:00-12:30M Keyhive: Coordination-Free Access Control for Local-First Apps 🎥 Brooklyn Zelenka
12:30-1:00PM Community Privacy Residency: What we learned in a month of co-creation 🎥 Riley Wong, Ying Tong Lai, Janabel Xia
1-2:30PM Lunch (on your own)
2:30-4:30PM Open Problems & Emerging Work
4:30-5:00PM Concluding remarks & activity ReCAP Organizers


Informal Discussion Sessions

ReCAP 2025 will feature two informal spaces for discussion. Participation does not require any formal submission. More information will be made available to attendees closer to the workshop.

Open Problems & Emerging Work: This session is a space discuss and gather input from ReCAP attendees on new problems or ongoing work. This session will be structured as a series of lightning talks followed by group discussions.


Reflection and Discussion: This will be an informally moderated space in which to reflect, share experiences and anecdotes, pose problems, and look toward solutions. Through this conversation we hope to inform the visioning of future iterations of ReCAP, and think toward what we are all looking for in a space that re-imagines cryptography and privacy in ways that are meaningful to the ReCAP community. This session will not be recorded, though participants will be free to document ideas (with the ideators' consent) on sticky notes or the blackboard.

Logistics


Organizing Committee

Coordination
Visioning
Reviews
Logistics
Local Organizing

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