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Riley Wong is the Principal of Emergent Research, co-founder of Community Privacy, and researcher at MIT, investigating digital infrastructure for community privacy, agency, and consent. Their work explores community infrastructure, collective data action, data strikes, and privacy-preserving data governance.

Riley co-founded the Community Privacy Residency in Taipei and Berlin, convening an international network of experts to co-create privacy infrastructure by and with vulnerable communities. Their background spans privacy-preserving data governance, consent infrastructure, and decentralized collective governance at Metagov, 0xPARC, and DWeb; machine learning engineering and AI ethics at Google; and award-winning investigative data journalism at ProPublica.

Their work has been published or presented at MIT, Harvard Kennedy School, Yale, and Penn, and covered by TIME, MIT Tech Review, Boston Globe, and Mother Jones.