Privacy Engineering

The 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.