Local-first privacy cases

This is a research project aimed at bridging the gap between local privacy violations x events the community is doing (meetups, summits, congresses & hackathons).

It’s part of the “social layer” activity fostering political awareness among developers so that they will tackle local & not just global issues.

Case scenario: web3 hackathon landing in the new city; our goal - introduce local-specific privacy stories, so developers can try to solve them (censorship resistance in Turkey, journalist leaks in Mexico, safe communication within occupied territories in Ukraine).

Template for the data collection

Name	Description	Type of privacy	Threat actors	Negative impact
Racial profiling while renting	”Berlin (and Germany in general) have a massive problem of racism in housing”	visual profiling	individuals	less renting opportunities, hostility & social disturbance

Test phase

We will commit to aggregate local use-cases prior to two events:

Web3privacy now meetup x ETHRome, 3 Oct event link
Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress x Devcon (Bangkok), 11 Nov: event link

note: privacy cases will be managed by local representatives - this will ensure accuracy within cases aggregation.

Previous work: The Ukrainian-Russian war privacy cases for Zcash Foundation research

Dedicated repository for all the privacy cases can be found here: https://github.com/web3privacy/privacycases