ISET4005: Privacy in a networked world

Description
This course focuses on both the technical challenges of handling sensitive data and the policy and legal issues facing data subjects, data owners, and data users. The students will recognize, analyze, and manage privacy challenges created by technology. Topics include privacy concepts, policies, and mechanisms; identity, anonymity, and confidentiality; private data analysis and database sanitization; privacy-preserving data mining techniques; privacy issues in social networks, RFID, and healthcare applications. The course includes a privacy-related project. Lecture: 2 hrs/week; tutorial: 2 hrs/week (optional); Lab: 0 hrs/week.