This course focuses on information as quantity, resource, and property. We study the application of quantitative methods to understanding how information technologies inform issues of public policy, regulation, and law. How are music, images, and...
Computer Science 208: Applied Privacy for Data Science The risks to privacy when making human subjects data available for research and how to protect against these risks using the formal framework of differential privacy. Methods for attacking statistical...
Description: What is privacy, and how is it affected by recent developments in computer technology? Course critically examines popular concepts of privacy and uses a rigorous analysis of technologies to understand the policy and ethical issues at play...
Privay Tools collaborator Adam Smith will offer a course on adaptive data analysis at Boston University this fall. Auditors from other universities are welcome to attend. CS 591: Adaptive Data Analysis, Algorithmic Stability and Privacy Times: Mondays and...
Co-Instructors: Kobbi Nissim & Or Sheffet Meets: Tuesday/Thursday 11:30AM - 1:00PM in MD 119 Course Description: This course will cover topics in cryptography and data privacy drawn from the theoretical computer science research literature with particular...
The Privacy Tools project makes considerable efforts to education both the public and greater academic community across disciplines to communicate the disclosure risks associated with research data and the ongoing efforts to successful management of...
James Honaker and Salil Vadhan The risks to privacy when making human subjects data available for research and how to protect against these risks using the formal framework of differential privacy. Methods for attacking statistical data releases, the...
The Privacy Tools project develops open access course materials and videos on data privacy from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. A full list of courses is available here.
Description: This course is about the following question: How can we enable the analysis of datasets with sensitive information about individuals while protecting the privacy of those individuals? This question is motivated by the vast amounts of data...
Description: This course will focus on language-based information security: using programming language techniques and abstractions to specify, reason about, and enforce, information security. Most of the course will focus on information-flow control...