Privacy is a growing concern in our modern society. We interact and share our personal information with a wide variety of organizations, including financial and healthcare institutions, web service providers and social networks. Many times such personal information is inappropriately collected, used or shared, often without our awareness. This course introduces privacy in a broad sense to provide students an overview of the challenging and emerging research topics in privacy.
This course will expose students to many of the issues that privacy engineers, program managers, researchers and designers deal with in the industry. By the end of the course, students will learn about the following areas in privacy:
- Data privacy: the motivations for data privacy and common implementations (e.g., k-anonymity, differential privacy).
- Online privacy: online tracking and anonymous communication systems.
- Opportunities and implications of using AI/ML in privacy.
- Side-channel threats: Emerging side-channel attacks.
- Privacy acts: privacy regulations, frameworks and compliance/auditing tools.
- Usable privacy: perceptions of privacy, privacy attitudes, privacy preferences.