Griffin Boyce

 

Griffin Boyce is a privacy engineer, security researcher, and civic technology advocate based in Iceland, serving as Director of Information Security and Privacy at Future 404. With more than two decades of experience in information security and privacy engineering — including previous work at Google on the Fuchsia operating system — he focuses on building practical, open technologies that strengthen digital rights, transparency, and public accountability.

At Future 404, Griffin works on projects at the intersection of privacy, open data, and civic infrastructure, building tools that make public data more accessible and analyzable. His recent work includes pipelines that parse Reykjavík City Council meeting minutes and dashboards aggregating search trends, Wikipedia activity, and local news — technology designed to improve government transparency and serve journalists, researchers, and the public.

His work spans the full stack of digital infrastructure: architecting and operating production Python/FastAPI systems, engineering privacy-preserving infrastructure designed for operation under adversarial conditions, and building data pipelines from scraping through structured export. Drawing on a formal background in information security and a track record in internet freedom research — including work on Tor access tools and mesh networking — he is driven by a particular interest in creating technology that serves communities rather than exploiting them.