Introduction to Data Privacy (CS 7301-002)

    Introduction to Data Privacy (CS 7301-002)

      Time and Location     : TR 2:30-3:45pm ECSS 2.311

     
      Instructor                          :  Murat Kantarcioglu
      Office Hours & Location :  ECSS 3.225 & T/Thr 4:00-5:00pm

      
      Teaching Assistant           :   Ali Inan
       Office Hours & Location :  To be announced

Prerequisites : CS 6360

Grading:

Project: 45% (Individual project.)

Your project should try to create novel solution ideas or new solution implementations about some privacy problem. Projects can be done as an group or as an invidual.
Here are the possible project topics!
Source code for the projects should be uploaded to Webct before 2:30pm on Nov 25th 2008 !!!

Presentations: 45% (please use the template given below.)

Template for the presentations.

Class Part. : 10%


Course Topics:

legal and social aspects of privacy
anonymization techniques
statistical database privacy
cryptographic techniques
privacy preseving data mining
privacy issues in various domains (e.g., health care, and social networks)

Textbook: No textbook is needed for this class.

Course Outline:

08.21.08 Thu.	We will discuss the current privacy issues and some related privacy laws. Murat will lead the discussion based on the following papers : End of Privacy? (The Economist April 29th 1999) The surveillance society (The Economist April 29th 1999) Privacy International's Overview of Privacy
08.26.08 Tue.	Overview of current privacy laws. We will focus on HIPAA law. Murat will lead the discussion. Summary of HIPAA Law
08.28.08 Thu.	Formal privacy definitions: k-anonymity and l-diversity Murat will lead the discussion based on the following papers: "Achieving k-anonymity privacy protection using generalization and suppression" by Sweeney et al. "l-diversity: Privacy beyond k-anonymity" by Machanavajjhala et al.
09.02.08 Tue.	Formal privacy definitions cont.: t-closeness and m-invariance Mustafa and Tyrone will lead the discussion based on the following papers: "t -Closeness: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity and l-Diversity" by Li et al. "m-Invariance: Towards Privacy Preserving Re-publication of Dynamic Datasets" by Xiao et al.
09.04.08 Thu.	Formal privacy definitions cont. : differential privacy Murat will lead the discussion based on the following paper: "Differential Privacy" by Dwork
09.09.08 Tue.	Other anonymization techniques. Philip and Raymond will lead the discussion based on the following papers: "Mondrian Multidimensional K-Anonymity" by Lefevre et al. "Anatomy: Simple and Effective Privacy Preservation" by Xiao et al.
09.11.08 Thu.	Statistical Database Security Ali will lead the discussion based on the first three sections of the following paper: "Security control methods for Database Security: A comparitive study" by Adam et al.
09.16.08 Tue.	Statistical Database Security Scott will lead the discussion based on the sections 4,5,6,7 and 8 of the following paper: "Security control methods for Database Security: A comparitive study" by Adam et al.
09.18.08 Thu.	Crypto techniques for privacy-preserving data mining Murat will lead the discussion based on the following book chapter: "A Survey of Privacy-preserving Methods Across Horizontally Partitioned Data" by Kantarcioglu
09.23.08 Tue.	Crypto techniques for privacy-preserving data mining Murat will lead the discussion based on the following book chapter: "A Survey of Privacy-preserving Methods Across Vertically Partitioned Data" by Vaidya
09.25.08 Thu.	Crypto techniques for privacy-preserving data mining Murat will lead the discussion based on the following papers: "Data Collection With Self-Enforcing Privacy" by Golle et al.
09.30.08 Tue.	Data perturbation based techniques for privacy-preserving data mining Zhong and Vishwath will lead the discussion based on the following papers: "Privacy Preserving Data Mining" by Agrawal et al. "Using Randomized Response Techniques for Privacy-Preserving Data Mining" by Du et al.
10.02.08 Thu.	Data perturbation based techniques for privacy-preserving data mining Scott will lead the discussion based on the following papers: "A Survey of Attack Techniques on Privacy-preserving Data Perturbation Methods." by Liu et al.
10.07.08 Tue.	Data perturbation techniques for privacy-preserving data mining Richard and Zhong will lead the discussion based on the following papers: "Providing k-Anonymity in Data Mining" by Friedman et al. "Wherefore Art Thou R3579X? Anonymized Social Networks, Hidden Patterns, and Structural Steganography" by Backstrom et al.
10.09.08 Thu.	Social network data privacy Robert will lead the discussion based on the following papers: "Anonymizing Social Networks" by Hay et al.
10.14.08 Tue.	Social network data privacy Raymond and Murat will lead the discussion based on the following papers: "Towards Identity Anonymization on Graphs" by Liu and Terzi "Inferring Privacy Information From Social Networks" by He et al.
10.16.08 Thu.	Social network data privacy Murat will lead the discussion based on the following papers: "Inferring Private Information Using Social Network Data" by Lindamood et al.
10.21.08 Tue.	Social network data privacy Murat will lead the discussion based on the following papers: "Preserving the Privacy of Sensitive Relationships in Graph Data" by Zheleva and Getoor "Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks" by Gross et al.
10.23.08 Thu.	Health-care data privacy Tyrone will lead the discussion based on the following paper: "Protecting patient privacy by quantifiable control of disclosures in disseminated databases" by Ohno-Machadoa et al.
10.28.08 Tue.	Health-care data privacy Mustafa and Richard will lead the discussion based on the following papers: "How (not) to protect genomic data privacy in a distributed network: using trail re-identification to evaluate and design anonymity protection systems" Malin et al. "Privacy protection for clinical and genomic data: The use of privacy enhancing techniques in medicine" Claerhout et al.
10.30.08 Thu.	Privacy issues related to Surfing the internet Philip will lead the discussion based on the following papers: "Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router" by Dingledine et al.
11.04.08 Tue.	Identity Theft Vishwath will lead the discussion based on the following papers: "Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?" by Romanosky et al.
11.06.08 Thu.	Privacy issues related to Homeland Security Ali will lead the discussion based on the following papers: "Homeland security and Privacy" by Elderman "Data Mining, National Security, Privacy and Civil Liberties" by Thuraisingham
11.11.08 Tue.	Privacy issues related to location aware services Robert will lead the discussion based on the following papers: "Location Privacy in Pervasive Computing" by Beresford et al.
11.13.08 Thu.	Privacy economics Murat will lead the discussion based on the following papers: "Privacy and Security of the Personal Information, Economic Incentives and Technological Solutions" by Acquisti The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism" by Akerlof
11.18.08 Tue.	Privacy economics Murat will lead the discussion based on the following paper: "Why we can't be bothered to read privacy policies: models of privacy economics as a lemons market" by Vila et al.
11.20.08 Thu.	Future of Data privacy Project Presentation: Ali
11.25.08 Tue.	Project presentation: Scott Project presentation: Mustafa Project presentation: Richard
11.27.08 Thu.	Happy Thanksgiving !!!
12.02.08 Tue.	Project presentation: Tyronne Project presentation: Zhong Project presentation: Raymond
12.04.08 Thu.	Project presentation: Philip Project presentation: Robert Project presentation: Vishwath