Data Privacy Enhancement for FIA

The Feminine Intelligence Agency (FIA) is committed to empowering women by providing tools and resources to recognize and respond to coercive and manipulative behaviors. As FIA plans to expand its services, ensuring the privacy and security of user data is paramount. This project aims to evaluate and enhance FIA's current data handling practices to align with stringent privacy standards such as PIPEDA and GDPR. The project will involve researching best practices in data privacy, assessing FIA's existing data collection and storage methods, and recommending improvements. The goal is to create a robust framework that safeguards user information while supporting FIA's mission of social impact. By focusing on privacy, the project will help FIA build trust with its users and stakeholders. We’re inviting your team to: ✅ Conduct a review of FIA’s current and planned data handling (minimal as it is—like names, session scheduling, or chat interactions). ✅ Develop a data privacy policy that establishes: What data FIA might collect in the future (e.g., scheduling, user profiles, chatbot interactions). The legal and ethical justifications for collecting this data. How this data will be stored, protected, and eventually deleted or anonymized. ✅ Create practical data breach prevention and response protocols —ensuring FIA is ready for any future incidents, even as a small nonprofit. ✅ Propose a set of general data principles that reflect FIA’s mission of radical safety, respect, and minimal data collection —aligned with user empowerment and psychological safety. ✅ Provide a privacy checklist that FIA can use for any new feature, tool, or program it develops (like the Listening Lab’s secure scheduling tool or the ChatBoy app).

Coercive Control Awareness Toolkit for Healthcare Professionals

The Feminine Intelligence Agency (FIA) is a research and design lab focused on social discernment, covert aggression, and psychological safety. Our mission is to help individuals—especially women—recognize and respond to subtle patterns of manipulation and control that are often overlooked by mainstream institutions. We create tools, training programs, and public resources that translate complex psychological and legal dynamics into accessible, actionable guidance. Our work sits at the intersection of trauma-informed care, prevention, and systems change. Project Overview: Coercive control is a form of psychological abuse that restricts a person’s freedom through tactics like surveillance, isolation, gaslighting, and financial control. It can have severe physical and mental health consequences—but because it leaves no visible injuries, it often goes undetected in healthcare settings. Most clinicians are not trained to recognize or respond to it. This project invites nursing students to take the lead in a discovery and planning initiative. Through interviews with nurses, doctors, and clinic staff, students will explore how to make coercive control awareness materials (e.g., posters, handouts, reference guides) as impactful and practical as possible in real-world settings . The final goal is to design a roadmap for producing and distributing these resources across hundreds of clinics, based on frontline feedback.

Bridging Research to Healthcare: Coercive Control Awareness Poster

The project aims to address the often-overlooked issue of coercive control in healthcare settings. Coercive control is a subtle yet damaging form of psychological and social abuse that significantly impacts health and well-being. Despite its seriousness, it is frequently absent from clinical conversations. The Feminine Intelligence Agency (FIA) has compiled extensive research on this topic, including survivor-informed language and best practices for support. The goal of this project is to translate this rich research base into an educational poster that can be displayed in healthcare environments. This poster will serve as a tool for both doctors and patients to recognize and understand the implications of coercive control. By doing so, the project seeks to enhance awareness and improve the quality of care provided to those affected by this form of abuse.

Empowering Cybersecurity: Combating Social Engineering with AI

Feminine Intelligence Agency (FIA) is expanding its services to include cybersecurity solutions aimed at protecting women from digital threats, particularly in the realm of social engineering . As generative AI tools continue to advance, they are transforming traditional manipulation tactics, making them more sophisticated, personalized, and pervasive. This project will task cybersecurity students with researching the landscape of generative AI tools and analyzing how these technologies are reshaping the field of social engineering. The students will identify specific threats that generative AI poses, particularly in scenarios like coercive control and psychological exploitation, and develop actionable recommendations for women to mitigate these risks. The final deliverables will directly support FIA’s goal of offering cutting-edge cybersecurity education and services to its customers.