ECE 18-734: Foundations of Privacy: Fall 2018

Classes start on Monday August 27, 2018 (CMU Academic Calendar)

Office hours and Hangouts can be found in the Google Calendar

All homework is due 10 minutes before lecture/recitation start.

Date	Topic	Reading Notes
Part 0: Introduction
Week 1
Monday August 27	Course Overview slides speaker: Anupam slides CMU Computing Policy CMU Policy on Academic Integrity
Wednesday August 29	Conceptual Framework for understanding Privacy slides speaker: Anupam slides Fair Information Principles (optional) Privacy in Context (optional) Overview Article in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (optional) Privacy as Contextual Integrity (optional) A Taxonomy on Privacy
Friday August 31	Recitation on Logic and Prolog slides Hwk1a out speaker: David slides Hwk1a out SWI Prolog Web interface
Part I: Privacy through Accountability: Formalization and Detection
Week 2
Monday September 3	No Class: Labor Day
Wednesday September 5	Privacy Policies in Prolog slides Hwk1a due Hwk1b out ( pdf, swinb ) speaker: Arthur slides Hwk1a due Hwk1b out ( pdf, swinb ) (optional) A Formalization of HIPAA for a Medical Messaging System (optional) Experiences in the Logical Specification of the HIPAA and GLBA Privacy Laws
Friday September 7	Recitation on Prolog speaker: David SWI Prolog Web interface
Week 3
Monday September 10	Privacy Policy Enforcement through Audit Case study: HIPAA Privacy Rule slides speaker: Anupam slides Policy Auditing over Incomplete Logs: Theory, Implementation and Applications Privacy and Contextual Integrity: Framework and Applications Summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule (Permitted Uses and Disclosures, Authorized Uses and Disclosures) (optional) Summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule
Wednesday September 12	Privacy Compliance in Big Data Systems slides speaker: Anupam slides Bootstrapping Privacy Compliance in Big Data Systems
Friday September 14	Course Project guidelines speaker: David
Week 4
Monday September 17	Guest Lecture: Recent Privacy Legislation slides speaker: Aleecia McDonald slides California AB 375 The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won (optional) Statement of Aleecia M. McDonald ... (optional) EU GDRP (optional) Tech Industry Pursues a Federal Privacy Law, on Its Own Terms
Wednesday September 19	Information Flow slides speaker: Piotr slides Language-based information-flow security (optional) A Lattice Model of Secure Information Flow (optional) Security Policies and Security Models (optional) A Semantic Approach to Secure Information Flow (optional) Secure information flow by self-composition
Friday September 21	Information Flow (continued) slides Hwk1b due Hwk2a out speaker: Piotr slides Hwk1b due Hwk2a out
Week 5
Monday September 24	Project Proposals Project Proposals due speaker: Students Project Proposals due
Wednesday September 26	Intro to Machine Learning slides speaker: Anupam slides Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
Friday September 28	Guest Lecture (not a recitation): Online Tracking slides ( part 1, part 2 ) Hwk2b out speaker: Nataliia Bielova slides ( part 1, part 2 ) Hwk2b out
Week 6
Monday October 1	Detecting Data Use on the Web slides speaker: Anupam slides Automated Experiments on Ad Privacy Settings (optional) Methodology for Information Flow Experiments (optional) XRay: Enhancing the Web's Transparency with Differential Correlation
Wednesday October 3	Guest Lecture: Auditing Algorithms and Pricing Discrimination slides ( part 1, part 2 ) speaker: Christo Wilson slides ( part 1, part 2 ) Peeking Beneath the Hood of Uber Measuring Price Discrimination and Steering on E-commerce Web Sites
Friday October 5	Recitation on Distance Metrics Hwk2a due speaker: David Hwk2a due
Part II: Protecting Privacy and Fairness in Big Data Analytics
Week 7
Monday October 8	Database Privacy: k-anonymity and de-anonymization attacks slides speaker: Piotr slides 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)
Wednesday October 10	Database Privacy: Differential Privacy slides Hwk2b due speaker: Piotr slides Hwk2b due Differential Privacy (optional) No Free Lunch in Data Privacy
Friday October 12	Recitation on Laplace Mechanism speaker: David
Week 8
Monday October 15	Database Privacy: Applied Differential Privacy slides Hwk3a out speaker: Anupam slides Hwk3a out Differentially Private Recommender Systems: Building Privacy into the Netflix Prize Contenders
Wednesday October 17	Database Privacy: Applied Differential Privacy (continued) slides speaker: Piotr slides Differentially Private Recommender Systems: Building Privacy into the Netflix Prize Contenders
Friday October 19	No Class: Mid-Semester Break
Week 9
Monday October 22	Algorithmic Transparency with Quantitative Input Influence Hwk3b out slides speaker: Piotr Hwk3b out slides Algorithmic Transparency via Quantitative Input Influence
Wednesday October 24	Use Privacy slides speaker: David slides Use Privacy in Data-Driven Systems: Theory and Experiments with Machine Learnt Programs
Friday October 26	No Class: Presidential Inauguration Day
Week 10
Monday October 29	Course Project Updates Project Deliverables I due speaker: Students Project Deliverables I due
Wednesday October 31	Course Project Updates (continued) Hwk3 due Hwk4 out ( pdf, zip ) speaker: Students Hwk3 due Hwk4 out ( pdf, zip )
Friday November 2	Recitation on privacy definitions speaker: David
Week 11
Monday November 5	Group and Individual Fairness in classification slides speaker: Piotr slides Certifying and Eliminating Disparate Impact Fairness through Awareness (optional) On the Web's Cutting Edge, Anonymity in Name Only
Part III: Cryptographic Mechanisms for Privacy Protection Applications
Wednesday November 7	Anonymous Communication Protocols slides speaker: Piotr slides Untraceable Electronic Mail The Dining Cryptographers Problem Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router
Friday November 9	Recitation on fairness speaker: David
Week 12
Monday November 12	Zero Knowledge: Theory slides speaker: Piotr slides Goldreich Tutorial
Wednesday November 14	Zero Knowledge: Applications; Anonymous Credentials Hwk4 due speaker: David Hwk4 due Untraceable Electronic Cash (optional) Anonymous Credentials
Friday November 16	Zero Knowledge Review speaker: David
Week 13
Monday November 19	Lecture cancelled Hwk5 out speaker: none Hwk5 out
Wednesday November 21	No Class: Thanksgiving
Friday November 23	No Class: Thanksgiving
Week 14
Monday November 26	Zero Knowledge: Applications; Anonymous Cash slides speaker: Anupam slides Untraceable Electronic Cash (optional) Anonymous Credentials
Wednesday November 28	Bitcoin and Blockchain slides speaker: Anupam slides Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System How the Bitcoin protocol actually works
Friday November 30	Project Q&A speaker: David
Week 15
Monday December 3	Project Presentations Hwk5 due speaker: Students Hwk5 due
Wednesday December 5	Project Presentations (continued) and Course Review speaker: Students
Friday December 7	Hwk5 Discussion speaker: David
Week 16
Monday December 10	Project deliverables Project Deliverables II due Written report due speaker: None (no class) Project Deliverables II due Written report due

* All schedules are subject to change over the course.