ECE 18-734: Foundations of Privacy: Fall 2018

Classes start on Monday August 26, 2019 (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 26	Course Overview slides slides CMU Computing Policy CMU Policy on Academic Integrity
Wednesday August 28	Conceptual Framework for Understanding Privacy slides slides Fair Information Principles (optional) Privacy in Context (optional) Overview Article in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (optional) Privacy as Contextual Integrity (optional) A Taxonomy of Privacy
Friday August 30	No recitation this week Homework 1 out Homework 1 out
Part I: Privacy through Accountability: Formalization and Detection
Week 2
Monday September 2	No Class: Labor Day
Wednesday September 4	Enforcing Purpose Restrictions through Audit Notes on MDPs slides Notes on MDPs slides Formalizing and Enforcing Purpose Restrictions in Privacy Policies Purpose Restrictions on Information Use Privacy and Contextual Integrity: Framework and Applications Summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule (Permitted Uses and Disclosures, Authorized Uses and Disclosures) A Formalization of HIPAA for a Medical Messaging System Experiences in the Logical Specification of the HIPAA and GLBA Privacy Laws
Friday September 6	Recitation on Docker (Sruti)
Week 3
Monday September 9	Privacy Compliance in Big Data Systems notes on lattices slides notes on lattices slides Bootstrapping Privacy Compliance in Big Data Systems
Wednesday September 11	Privacy Compliance (cont'd) / Detecting Data Use on the Web (Part I) slides slides XRay: Enhancing the Web's Transparency with Differential Correlation SAFFRON: A Fast, Efficient, and Robust Framework for Group Testing Based on Sparse-Graph Codes
Friday September 13	Course Project guidelines Homework 2 out Homework 2 out
Week 4
Monday September 16	Information Flow Experiments notes on KS test slides notes on KS test slides Methodology for Information Flow Experiments
Wednesday September 18	Information Flow Experiments (Part II) notes on convergence perm. test example slides notes on convergence perm. test example slides Automated Experiments on Ad Privacy Settings
Friday September 20	Project Proposals Project Proposals due Project Proposals due
Part II: Protecting Privacy and Fairness in Big Data Analytics
Week 5
Monday September 23	Introduction to Machine Learning: Classifiers slides slides Introduction to Machine Learning: Linear Classifiers
Wednesday September 25	Database Privacy: k-anonymity and de-anonymization attacks slides 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)
Friday September 27	Recitation/Office Hours for HW2
Week 6
Monday September 30	Database Privacy: Differential Privacy Homework 2 due slides notes on DP Homework 2 due slides notes on DP Differential Privacy (optional) No Free Lunch in Data Privacy
Wednesday October 2	Differentially-Private Recommender Systems slides slides Differentially Private Recommender Systems: Building Privacy into the Netflix Prize Contenders
Friday October 4	Differential Privacy Recitation
Week 7
Monday October 7	Differentially-Private Recommender Systems (cont'd) Homework 3 out slides Homework 3 out slides Differentially Private Recommender Systems: Building Privacy into the Netflix Prize Contenders
Wednesday October 9	Local Differential Privacy slides slides Rappor: Randomized aggregatable privacy-preserving ordinal response
Friday October 11	Recitation on Local Differential Privacy
Week 8
Monday October 14	Learning with Privacy slides cross-entropy, kl-divergence notes slides cross-entropy, kl-divergence notes (optional) Local privacy and statistical minimax rates (optional) Extremal Mechanisms in Local Differential Privacy
Wednesday October 16	Privacy leakage in machine learning slides slides Membership inference attacks against machine learning models Privacy in Pharmacogenetics: An End-to-End Case Study of Personalized Warfarin Dosing
Friday October 18	No Class: Mid-Semester Break
Week 9
Monday October 21	Bias in Algorithms: Existence and Detection slides slides Peeking Beneath the Hood of Uber Measuring Price Discrimination and Steering on E-commerce Web Sites
Wednesday October 23	Fairness in ML slides, notes slides, notes Fairness through Awareness
Friday October 25	No Class: Day for Community Engagement
Week 10
Monday October 28	Fairness in ML, continued Homework 4 out slides, notes Homework 4 out slides, notes Equality of Opportunity in Supervised Learning Certifying and Eliminating Disparate Impact Fairness through Awareness (optional) On the Web's Cutting Edge, Anonymity in Name Only (optional) Algorithmic Transparency via Quantitative Input Influence
Wednesday October 30	Course Project Updates (Students present)
Friday November 1	Recitation on Fairness Metrics (Sruti)
Week 11
Monday November 4	Course Project Updates (Students present)
Wednesday November 6	Fairness (Equal Opportunity and Disparate Impact) slides, notes slides, notes Equality of Opportunity in Supervised Learning Certifying and Eliminating Disparate Impact
Friday November 8	Recitation on Fair Classifiers (Sruti)
Part III: Special Topics and Cryptographic Tools
Week 12
Monday November 11	Secret sharing and DC nets slides slides How to Share a Secret The Dining Cryptographers Problem
Wednesday November 13	Mix networks and onion routing slides slides Untraceable Electronic Mail Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router
Friday November 15	Recitation on anonymous communication
Week 13
Monday November 18	Oblivious Transfer slides slides How to Exchange Secrets with Oblivious Transfer
Wednesday November 20	Garbled Circuits slides slides Goldreich Tutorial (optional) Private Information Retrieval
Friday November 22	Additional Office Hours (Sruti) Hwk4 due Hwk4 due
Week 14
Monday November 25	Blockchains slides slides Untraceable Electronic Cash (optional) Anonymous Credentials
Wednesday November 27	No Class: Thanksgiving
Friday November 29	No Class: Thanksgiving
Week 15
Monday December 2	Poster Session 1
Wednesday December 4	Poster Session 2
Friday December 6	No recitation

* All schedules are subject to change over the course.