Carnegie Mellon University

Data Privacy Center

Data Privacy / Privacy Technology Course


Course Schedule

The following schedule and descriptions are tentative and subject to change. Throughout the semester, this information will be updated.

Projects List

Schedule

Week
No.
Date Description Assignment Due
1 Tue 1/17 Welcome!; Course goal; Description of projects and research activities.
Slides
1 Thu 1/19 Social Security numbers; Identity theft; The Identity Angel Project.
Slides, Video, Paper, Identity Angel Project, Assignment 1
2 Tue 1/24 Measuring performance; RosterFinder (and FERPA)
ID Angel Update, Analysis slides, Roster Finder: slides, paper
2 Thu 1/26 Name extraction (Guest lecture: William Gronim); Writing academic papers
Name extraction slides, Writing slides, Find MISM Candidates Project, Email Social Network Project, Assignment 2
Assignment 1, Update
3 Tue 1/31 Biometrics; Sweeney Identity Phone; The Tracemetrics Project
Biometrics slides, Tracemetrics slides
3 Thu 2/2 Student work show-off; Face Book (Guest lecture: Ralph Gross)
Face Book slides
Assignment 2, Solutions
4 Tue 2/7 Pushing projects further
ID Angel Update, Email Net Update, Assignment 3
4 Thu 2/9 Image processing; Relational databases in Java
Image-J slides, Database slides, test0.java, test1.java, test2.java, test3.java, test4.java
5 Tue 2/14 Data purchase; Privacy survey
Survey
Assignment 3
5 Thu 2/16 Data sharing risks and practices; Tracemetrics update
Data sharing slides, Tracemetrics update
6 Tue 2/21 More on risks; Working with JPEG images; Tracemetrics and AAMs on Hands (Guest presentation: Ralph Gross)
AAMs slides, JPEG lab, Assignment 4
6 Thu 2/23 The Discriminating Features Challenge: Sweeney's Order by Closest Neighbors Algorithm; Yiheng Li presents Correlation Coefficients and also a Fractal Approach.
Sweeney algorithm, Yiheng's slides
7 Tue 2/28 All the Data on All the People
Data lab
Assignment 4
7 Thu 3/2 Scavenger hunt results
Data lab results, Face Book
8 Tue 3/7 Minimal risk strategies for tracking people; Privacy Incident Reports (Guest presentation: William Gronim)
Slides, Sony Root Kit Incident
8 Thu 3/9 Provably privacy-preserving strategies for tracking people
Slides (Updated), Warranty Excerpt, Privacy Compliance Excerpt, VAWA, Assignment 5
Tue 3/14 Spring Break!
Thu 3/16 Spring Break!
9 Tue 3/21 Bio-terrorism surveillance, Distributed systems with provable privacy protection
Shelter Tracking (Updated); Distributed bioterrorism surveillance: PrivaSum, RandomOrder
9 Thu 3/23 Medical surveillance; Surveillance under HIPAA
slides, paper Assignment 6
Assignment 5
10 Tue 3/28 Webcam Surveillance
slides, paper; Lab, Lab Results
10 Thu 3/30 Webcam examples; Lab Results
Other sample papers Watching people in waiting rooms, Watching people consume bagels, Analyzing lengths of phonecalls, Vehicle traffic flow
Assignment 6 (submit 1)
11 Tue 4/4 RFID Surveillance, Guest Lecture by Michael Shamos
slides
11 Thu 4/6 Assignment discussions led by Yiheng Li Assignment 6 (submit 2)
12 Tue 4/11 The Concerns of Ian Kerr: technology that makes you feel icky
12 Thu 4/13 Face recognition and Face de-identification, Guest Lecture by Ralph Gross
13 Tue 4/18 Video surveillance projects review
slides
13 Thu 4/20 SCS 50 and Carnival Break!
14 Tue 4/25 In-class presentations by Students Assignment 6 (final submit)
14 Thu 4/27 In-class presentations by Students Assignment 7 (In-class Presentation)
15 Tue 5/2 Work on Project Fair Website
Project Fair, Assignment 8a (Web Presentation)
15 Thu 5/4 Work on Project Fair Website
Project Fair, Assignment 8b (Web Presentation)
Assignment 8 (Web Presentation)
5/9 Project Fair Assignment 6 (Make-up)

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