Schedule

** Lecture topics and readings are subject to change as the semester evolves. Slides will be uploaded right after class.

Date Topic Reading Note
01/09 Introduction and course overview
Topic: Database Privacy
01/11 Data De-anonymization
01/16 No Class Martin Luther King Jr. Day
01/18 k-anonymity
01/23 l-diversity, t-closeness
01/25 Differential privacy Tutorial on Differential Privacy
01/30 Private Information Retrieval (PIR)
Topic: Online Privacy
02/01 Online tracking: stateful
02/06 Online tracking: stateless
02/08 Privacy tools for web browsing
02/13 Anonymous communication
02/15 Tor network
02/20 Exam Review In class discussion
02/22 Midterm Exam In class exam Topics covered upto 02/15 (inclusive)
Topic: Machine learning and Privacy
02/27 Privacy Attacks on machine learning models (part 1)
03/01 Privacy Attacks on machine learning models (part 2)
03/06 Privacy perserving machine learning
03/08 Fairness and auditing of automated systems
03/13 No Class Spring break
03/15 No Class Spring break
Topic: Legal Aspects of Privacy
03/20 Privacy acts and frameworks
03/22 Privacy notices
03/27 Privacy policy compliance
Topic: Perception of Privacy
03/29 Privacy index and Factors influencing privacy attitude
04/03 Modeling users' privacy preferences
Topic: Inference Attacks
04/05 Bitcoin and privacy Video lecture
bitcoin-what-is-it
bitcoin
04/10 Network-level Inference attacks
04/12 Acoustic and Motion sensor based Inference attacks
04/17 Final Project Presenation In class discussion
04/19 Final Project Presenation In class discussion
04/24 Final Exam Review In class discussion
05/01 Final Exam In Class (12pm to 2:30pm) Excluding Mid-term Exam Content