Privacy Enhancing Technologies
7.5 ECTS creditsThe course comprises two parts, a lecture series and a seminar, each covering about half the course content.
The first part of the course introduces and explains the reasons for and concept of privacy enhancing technology in general, especially and in more detail the logic behind anonymisation and pseudonymisation. This part presents and discusses the objectives of privacy protection and strategies for designing it, as well as the current legal and technical situation when it comes to applying privacy enhancing technologies in IT systems. The basics of impact assessment in relation to data protection and selected highly relevant privacy enhancing technologies are explained in detail.
The second part of the course includes presentations on specific topics in the scientific discourse about privacy enhancing technologies, assigned to individual students at the beginning of the course. In the seminar, students present and discuss their conclusions with other students, and submit written reports about their topics.
The first part of the course introduces and explains the reasons for and concept of privacy enhancing technology in general, especially and in more detail the logic behind anonymisation and pseudonymisation. This part presents and discusses the objectives of privacy protection and strategies for designing it, as well as the current legal and technical situation when it comes to applying privacy enhancing technologies in IT systems. The basics of impact assessment in relation to data protection and selected highly relevant privacy enhancing technologies are explained in detail.
The second part of the course includes presentations on specific topics in the scientific discourse about privacy enhancing technologies, assigned to individual students at the beginning of the course. In the seminar, students present and discuss their conclusions with other students, and submit written reports about their topics.
Progressive specialisation:
A1F (has second‐cycle course/s as entry requirements)
Education level:
Master's level
Admission requirements:
Internet Security and Privacy (7.5 ECTS credits), plus upper secondary level English 6, or equivalent
Selection:
Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.
This course is included in the following programme
- Master of Science in Computer Engineering (studied during year 5)