Community Privacy Residency: What we learned in a month of co-creation

Contributor(s)

Riley Wong, Ying Tong Lai, Janabel Xia

Abstract

As privacy and cryptography applications mature beyond the infrastructure layer, it is crucial to anchor their design in the needs of real-world communities. The Community Privacy Residency (Taipei 2025) brought together researchers, builders, and community members to explore human-centric methodologies, such as participatory co-design and participatory threat modeling, in consideration of the privacy needs of marginalised groups. We would love to showcase the work of our residents around community privacy, including projects and co-designs around policy red-teaming, private collaborative AI, anonymous workplace abuse reporting, time-assured deniable authentication, privacy-preserving digital identity, and more, as well as discuss learnings and takeaways from the organizers in community and movement building for the residency and beyond.