KYBS2600 Privacy Engineering (5 cr)

Study level:
Advanced studies
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
English
Responsible organisation:
Faculty of Information Technology
Curriculum periods:
2024-2025, 2025-2026, 2026-2027, 2027-2028

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Information privacy is critical and a proper engineering understanding of how to provide systems with...

Description

Information privacy is critical and a proper engineering understanding of how to provide systems with privacy as a first-class property will be made in this course.

The course covers the following topics:

Basics of Privacy:

  • Privacy by Design,
  • Societal aspects,
  • Business aspects.

Case Study.

Data Flow Modelling.

Classifying Information:

  • Security classifications and their meanings,
  • Information types,
  • Personal Data and Characteristics, “PII”,
  • Location Data,
  • Financial and Health Data,
  • Identifiers,
  • Temporal Data.

Risk and Vulnerability Analysis:

  • Privacy Impact Assessments,
  • Failure Model and effects Analysis,
  • Root Cause Analysis,
  • Risk Registers,
  • Privacy Accident Investigations.

Requirements:

  • Security Requirements,
  • Classification of Requirements,
  • Applying Requirements and Modelling their interactions.

Notice and Consent.

Privacy Enhancing Techniques:

  • Tokenisation, Randomisation,
  • Anonymity,
  • Cryptography vs Privacy.

Auditing and Inspection:

  • Audit Process,
  • Modelling Processes,
  • Checklists,

Developing a Privacy Programme.

Learning outcomes

The students will obtain an understanding of privacy at an engineering level and be able to link this with legal and technical requirements in a given system.

Knowledge of how to classify and analyse information, and model how information flows within a system will be the main goal.

Further extension to the processes surrounding privacy and how an audit of a system may be made will be done.

Description of prerequisites

Basic knowledge of Linux is desirable.

Completion methods

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Participation in teaching (5 cr)

Type:
Participation in teaching
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
English
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