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Course Description

Data privacy: definition and terminologies. Difference between data security and privacy. Data privacy attacks. Data privacy laws and regulations. Privacy risk and impact assessment. Privacy engineering, management, and evaluation. Data anonymization. Statistical privacy. Differential privacy. Cryptographic privacy. Homomorphic encryption. Secure multi-party computation. Secure data outsourcing. Data hiding and steganography. Anonymous networks. Trusted execution environment. Applications of privacy preserving technologies in computer systems and applications.

 

Prerequisites: Senior Standing

Lecture Notes

Week	Date	Topic
1	30-Aug	Introduction
	1-Sep	Definition and terminologies
2	6-Sep	Cont.
	8-Sep	Data Privacy Laws  (Group Discussion)
3	13-Sep	Privacy Risk and Impact assessment
	15-Sep	Cont. (Group Discussion)
4	20-Sep	Privacy by Design and Privacy Engineering (Quiz 1)
	22-Sep	Privacy-preserving Data publishing: K-anonymization, l-diversity, t-closeness
5	27-Sep	Cont.
	29-Sep	Statistical Privacy  (Reading assignment)
6	4-Oct	Cont. (Probability Review)
	6-Oct	Differential Privacy (Definition) (Quiz 2)
7	11-Oct	Cont.
	13-Oct	Differential Privacy II (Laplace Mechanism and Properties)
8	18-Oct	Differential Privacy III (Exponential Mechanism and applications)
	20-Oct	Cont. (Quiz 3)
9	25-Oct	Midterm exam (Building 58, rooms 0037 and 0039 at 5:30 - 7:30PM)
	26-Oct	Midterm review
10	1-Nov	Homomorphic Encryption
	3-Nov	Cont.
11	8-Nov	Secure multiparty computation I
	10-Nov	Secure multiparty computation II
12	15-Nov	Cont.
	17-Nov	Secure data outsourcing (Quiz 4)
13	22-Nov	Cont.
	24-Nov	Data Hiding and steganography
14	29-Nov	Anonymous communication
	1-Dec	Anonymous communication (Quiz 5)
15	6-Dec	Trsuted Execution Envirnoemnts  and ORAMS (Quiz 6)
	8-Dec	PETs applications