18-734 / 08-604: Foundations of Privacy

Schedule (subject to change)

Classes start on August 28, 2017

Date	Topics	Readings	Notes
Mon, Aug 28	Course Overview Central Questions: What is privacy? How can we protect privacy?	CMU Computing Policy CMU Policy on Academic Integrity	Slides Video
Wed, Aug 30	Conceptual Framework for understanding Privacy	Fair Information Principles Overview Article in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Privacy as Contextual Integrity A Taxonomy on Privacy Optional: Privacy in Context	Slides
Fri, Sep 1	Recitation on Logic		Slides
Mon, Sep 4	Labor Day Holiday; No lecture.
Privacy through Accountability: Formalization and Detection
Wed, Sep 6	Specifying Privacy Policies: Contextual Integrity and Logics of Privacy Case study: HIPAA Privacy Rule	Privacy and Contextual Integrity: Framework and Applications Experiences in the Logical Specification of the HIPAA and GLBA Privacy Laws	Slides
Fri, Sep 8	Recitation on the Reduce tool		Slides
Mon, Sep 11	Privacy Policy Enforcement through Audit Case study: HIPAA Privacy Rule	Policy Auditing over Incomplete Logs: Theory, Implementation and Applications. [PDF] [TechReport ]	HW1 out Slides
Wed, Sep 13	Purpose Restrictions in Privacy Policies: Semantics and Audit	Formalizing and Enforcing Purpose Restrictions in Privacy Policies Purpose Restrictions on Information Use	Slides
Fri, Sep 15	Course Project guidelines Markov Decision Processes		Slides
Mon, Sep 18	Privacy Compliance in Big Data Systems	Bootstrapping Privacy Compliance in Big Data Systems	Slides
Wed, Sep 20	Introduction to Machine Learning		HW1 in Slides
Fri, Sep 22	Probability Theory Review		Slides
Mon, Sep 25	Project Proposals		HW2 out
Wed, Sep 27	Detecting Data Use on the Web: Information Flow Experiments	Automated Experiments on Ad Privacy Settings Methodology for Information Flow Experiments XRay: Enhancing the Web's Transparency with Differential Correlation	Slides
Fri, Sep 29	Recitation on AdFisher HW1 discussion		Slides
Mon, Oct 2	Privacy against Statistical Inference	Privacy against Statistical Inference Managing your Private and Public Data: Bringing down Inference Attacks against your Privacy
Wed, Oct 4	GDPR	GDPR	HW2 in HW3 out Slides
Fri, Oct 6	Recitation on distance metrics, in prepration for the differential privacy lecture.		Slides
Mon, Oct 9	Online Tracking, guest lecture by Nataliia Bielova		Slides
Wed, Oct 11	Guest lecture by Christo Wilson		Slides Uber slides
Protecting Privacy and Fairness in Big Data Analytics
Fri, Oct 13	HW 2 Discussion Laplace Mechanism
Mon, Oct 16	Database Privacy: k-anonymity and de-anonymization attacks	Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values Protecting Respondents' Identities in Microdata Release Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets (How to Break Anonymity of the Netflix Prize Dataset)	Slides
Wed, Oct 18	Database Privacy: Differential Privacy	Differential Privacy Optional: No Free Lunch in Data Privacy	Slides
Fri, Oct 20	Mid semester break; No recitation.
Mon, Oct 23	Database Privacy: Differential Privacy Applied	Differentially Private Recommender Systems: Building Privacy into the Netflix Prize Contenders	HW4 out Slides
Wed, Oct 25	Group and Individual Fairness in classification	· Certifying and Eliminating Disparate Impact Fairness through Awareness	Slides
Fri, Oct 27	HW3 Discussion Recitation topic TBD		HW3 in
Mon, Oct 30	Algorithmic Transparency with Quantitative Input Influence	Algorithmic Transparency via Quantitative Input Influence	Slides
Wed, Nov 1	Project Deliverables I due: Course Project Update
Fri, Nov 3	Recitation topic TBD
Mon, Nov 6	Use privacy and proxy discrimination by Piotr Mardziel		Slides
Wed, Nov 8 Guest lecture: Alexandra Chouldechova	Fair prediction with disparate impact	Fair prediction with disparate impact: A study of bias in recidivism prediction instruments
Fri, Nov 10	No classes
Cryptographic Mechanisms for Privacy Protection Applications
Mon, Nov 13	Anonymous Communication Protocols	Untraceable Electronic Mail The Dining Cryptographers Problem Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router	HW4 in Slides
Wed, Nov 15	Zero Knowledge: Theory	Goldreich Tutorial	HW5 out Slides
Fri, Nov 17	HW4 discussion Zero Knowledge Review
Mon, Nov 20	Zero Knowledge: Applications Anonymous credentials	Untraceable Electronic Cash Optional: CL anonymous credentials	Slides
Wed, Nov 22	Thanksgiving Holiday; No lecture.
Fri, Nov 24	Thanksgiving Holiday; No recitation.
Mon, Nov 27	Bitcoin, contracts	Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System How the Bitcoin protocol actually works
Wed, Nov 29	Zerocoin	Zerocoin: Anonymous Distributed E-Cash from Bitcoin	Slides
Fri, Dec 1	Recitation: Project Q&A		HW5 in
Mon, Dec 4	Project Presentations in class Project Deliverables II due Written report due
Wed, Dec 6	Project Presentations in class + Course Review		Slides
Fri, Dec 8	Recitation: HW5 discussion