CMSC 663 - Data Privacy

Credits: [3]

Description: Data Protection can be viewed as the combination of Data Security, which focuses on protecting data from internal/external attackers, and Data Privacy, which focuses on governing how data is collected, shared, and used. This course examines the fundamentals of data privacy. In a world where ever-increasing amounts of information are captured about our daily lives, it is necessary for responsible computer scientists to take individuals’ privacy into account throughout the whole engineering process. This course will discuss topics which include: history and fundamentals of data privacy, data privacy regulations, privacy-by-design, privacy enhancing technologies, privacy policies, differential privacy, cryptographic techniques (e.g., secure multi-party computation). In addition to the instructor lectures, the course will involve presentations on the state of the art of different topics in the field by researchers from UMBC and other institutions.
When Offered: Spring
Linked with/Also listed as 463
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: A-F