Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
Summary
This advanced course will provide students with the knowledge to tackle the design of privacy-preserving ICT systems. Students will learn about existing technologies to prect privacy, and how to evaluate the protection they provide.
Content
The course will cover the following topics :
- Privacy definitions and concepts
- Privacy-preserving cryptographics solutions : anonymous credentials, zero-knowledge proofs, secure multi-party computation, homomorphic encryption, Private information retrieval (PIR), Oblivious RAM (ORAM)
- Anonymization and data hiding : generalization, differential privacy, etc
- Machine learning and privacy
- Protection of metadata : anonymous communications systems, location privacy, censorpship resistance
- Online tracking and countermeasures
- Privacy engineering : design and evaluation (evaluation metrics and notions)
- Legal aspects of privacy
Keywords
Privacy, anonymity, homomorphic encryption, secure multi-paty computation, anonymous credentials, ethics
Learning Prerequisites
Required courses
COM-301 Computer security
COM-402 Information security and privacy
Recommended courses
COM-401 Cryptography and security
Important concepts to start the course
Basic programming skills; basics of probabilities and statistics; basics of cryptography
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Select appropriately appropriately privacy mechanisms
- Develop privacy technologies
- Assess / Evaluate privacy protection
- Reason about privacy concerns
Teaching methods
Lectures and written exercises to deepen understanding of concepts
Programming-oriented assignments to practice use of privacy technologies
Expected student activities
Participation in the lectures. Active participation is encouraged.
Participation in exercise session and complete the exercises regularly
Completion of programming assignments
Supervision
| Assistants | Yes |
In the programs
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
- Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
- Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
- Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
- Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
- Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: mandatory
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
- Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: mandatory
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
- Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
- Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
- Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies
- Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional