Research lab and consultancy on privacy, governance, and data. Integrating emerging privacy and cryptography tools with a community-first approach to build new infrastructures for collective agency and consent.

• Privacy-preserving data governance, i.e. cryptography-enabled (zero-knowledge, multi-party computation, fully homomorphic encryption) data collectives (data coops, data trusts, etc.) for sex workers, trans healthcare, reproductive justice, and vulnerable communities.

• Community Privacy Residency 2025

• Threat Modeling and Risk Mitigation for Digital ID Systems

• Privacy-Preserving Data Governance

  • Essay: Privacy-Preserving Data Governance — On emerging cryptographic tools and sex work

  • Talk: Privacy-Preserving Data Governance

• Multi-Party Fully Homomorphic Encryption as a Privacy-Preserving Framework for Naming Abusers

  • Talk: Applications of MP-FHE for Vulnerable Communities

• Privacy Protections Against Non-Consensual Intimate Media (NCIM) Abuse

• Interfaces for Data Consent

• Community governance and cooperative infrastructure, with emphasis on decolonial and international perspectives.

• Governance Archaeology

• Community Models for Music Venues and Platforms

• Governable Spaces: Tech for Democratic Communities

• Open to grants, consulting, prototyping, and collaborations: contact@emergentresearch.net