Privacy in the Digital Age - CS 5436 / INFO 5303

Jan 21. "Privacy is dead" and other myths.

Jan 21. Primer on cryptography.

Feb 4. Primer on the Internet and Web technologies.

Feb 4. Web tracking and fingerprinting.

Assignment #1 due.

Feb 11. Privacy and digital marketing.

Project proposals due.

Feb 18. Location privacy.

Feb 18. Privacy in social networks.

Feb 25. Data anonymization and re-identification.

Feb 25. Privacy as a luxury good.

Mar 4. SSL/TLS in the real world.

Assignment #2 due.

Mar 11. Legal perspective on data privacy.

Mar 13 (Friday, 12:30p, Big Red). Federal regulation of privacy.
Wiretapping and surveillance.

Guest: Steve Bellovin, Professor, Columbia University, and former Chief Technologist, Federal Trade Commission.
Reading: Solove and Hartzog. The FTC and the New Common Law of Privacy.

Mar 18. Online privacy protection.

Mar 25. Off-the-record messaging.

Mar 25. Contextual integrity.

Apr 8. Tor and anonymity networks.

Apr 15. Privacy and civil liberties.

Guest: Chris Soghoian, Principal Technologist, Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, American Civil Liberties Union.

Assignment #3 due.

Apr 22. Genomic privacy.

Apr 29. Bitcoin.

Guests: Arvind Narayanan, Professor, Princeton University;
Muneeb Ali, Co-Founder, Onename.
Reading: Chapters 1.4, 1.5, 2, and 3 of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies.

May 6. Internet censorship.

Assignment #4 due.

Spring 2015
Wed, 2:30 - 5:15p

Instructor:
Vitaly Shmatikov

shmatikov at gmail.com