ECE 18-734: Foundations of Privacy: Fall 2018

Classes start on Monday August 31, 2020 (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 I: Privacy through Accountability: Formalization and Detection
Week 1
Monday August 31	Course Overview and Conceptual Privacy Frameworks CMU Computing Policy CMU Policy on Academic Integrity 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
Wednesday September 2	Detecting Data Use on the Web 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 4	No recitation this week
Week 2
Monday September 7	No Class: Labor Day
Wednesday September 9	Information Flow Experiments Methodology for Information Flow Experiments Automated Experiments on Ad Privacy Settings
Friday September 11	Recitation
Week 3
Monday September 14	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
Wednesday September 16	Information Flow Control
Friday September 18	Course Project guidelines
Part II: Protecting Privacy in Big Data Analytics
Week 4
Monday September 21	Introduction to Machine Learning: Classifiers Introduction to Machine Learning: Linear Classifiers
Wednesday September 23	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)
Friday September 25	Recitation
Week 5
Monday September 28	Privacy leakage in machine learning
Wednesday September 30	Differential Privacy Differential Privacy (optional) No Free Lunch in Data Privacy
Friday October 2	Differential Privacy Recitation
Week 6
Monday October 5	Variants of Differential Privacy
Wednesday October 7	Local Differential Privacy Rappor: Randomized aggregatable privacy-preserving ordinal response
Friday October 9	Recitation on Local Differential Privacy
Week 7
Monday October 12	Learning with Privacy (optional) Local privacy and statistical minimax rates (optional) Extremal Mechanisms in Local Differential Privacy
Wednesday October 14	Learning with Privacy, part II (DPSGD)
Friday October 16	No Class: Day for Community Engagement
Week 8
Monday October 19	Exam 1
Part III: Protecting Fairness in Big Data Analytics
Week 8
Wednesday October 21	Bias in Algorithms: Existence and Detection Peeking Beneath the Hood of Uber Measuring Price Discrimination and Steering on E-commerce Web Sites
Friday October 23	No Class: Mid-Semester Break
Week 9
Monday October 26	Fairness in ML, Part I Fairness through Awareness
Wednesday October 28	Fairness in ML, part II 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
Friday October 30	Recitation on Fairness Metrics
Week 10
Monday November 2	Fairness (Equal Opportunity and Disparate Impact) Equality of Opportunity in Supervised Learning Certifying and Eliminating Disparate Impact
Wednesday November 4	Applications of Fairness, adoption
Friday November 6	Recitation
Part IV: Special Topics and Cryptographic Tools
Week 11
Monday November 9	Secret sharing and DC nets How to Share a Secret The Dining Cryptographers Problem
Wednesday November 11	Mix networks and onion routing Untraceable Electronic Mail Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router
Friday November 13	Recitation on anonymous communication
Week 12
Monday November 16	Oblivious Transfer and Garbled Circuits How to Exchange Secrets with Oblivious Transfer Goldreich Tutorial A Gentle Introduction to Yao's Garbled Circuits
Wednesday November 18	Evaluating encrypted neural networks
Friday November 20	Recitation
Week 13
Monday November 23	Exam 2
Wednesday November 25	No Class: Thanksgiving
Friday November 27	No Class: Thanksgiving
Week 14
Monday November 30	Course summary
Wednesday December 2	Projects 1/3
Friday December 4	Recitation (Extra Office Hours)
Week 15
Monday December 7	Projects 2/3
Wednesday December 9	Projects 3/3

* All schedules are subject to change over the course.