Carnegie Mellon University

Data Privacy Center

Data Privacy Course

Project List




Projects

The bulk of your grade in this course is based heavily on your project. Even some assignments you provide in the course are based on your project. So, select a project that best fits what you want to get out of the course.

Assignment #1
Select a specific project from the project tracks listed below for the course this term. Once you have decided which project you will begin working with, complete one of the activities described in the project track, and then submit a short report (1-3 pages) on your findings that describes what you did and what you intend to do as your final project. Include any relevant data. This must be completed to later than Tuesday, 12/7/2004 at 5pm!


List of Project Tracks (this term!)

  1. Privacy Concerns of the Past
  2. Identity Theft and On-line SSNs
  3. Biometrics of the Hand
  4. Automated Video Surveillance
  5. Provably Anonymous Data


List of Project Tracks -- Spring 2004

  1. Privacy Concerns of the Past
  2. Biometrics of the Hand
  3. Ubiquitous Video
  4. Mining On-line SSNs
  5. Identifiability of IP Addresses
  6. Combating SPAM


List of Project Tracks -- Fall 2003

  1. Privacy Concerns of the Past
  2. Social Security Number Identifications
  3. Ubiquitous Video
  4. Policy Specification
  5. Identifiability of IP Addresses
  6. Distributed Surveillance

Fall 2004 Privacy and Anonymity in Data
Professor: Latanya Sweeney, Ph.D. [latanya@dataprivacylab.org]