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BCSE318L DATA PRIVACY L T P C
3 0 0 3
Pre-requisite NIL Syllabus version
1.0
Course Objectives
1. To impart the need of data privacy.
2. To categorize the statistical and computational techniques required to share data,
with a primary focus on the social, and health sciences.
3. To formulate architectural, algorithmic, and technological foundations for the
maintaining the data privacy.
Course Outcomes
After completion of this course, the student shall be able to:
1. Characterize basic rules, principles for protecting privacy and personally identifiable
information.
2. Formulate data that supports useful statistical inference while minimizing the disclosure of
sensitive information.
3. Identify the list of threats on the various types of anonymized data.
4. Classify and analyze the methods of test data generation with Privacy and utility.
Module:1 Data privacy and Importance 5 hours
Need for Sharing Data - Methods of Protecting Data - Importance of Balancing Data
Privacy and Utility – Disclosure - Tabular Data - Micro data - Approaches to Statistical
disclosure control – Ethics – principles - guidelines and regulations.
Module:2 Microdata 7 hours
Disclosure - Disclosure risk - Estimating re-identification risk - Non-Perturbative Micro data
masking - Perturbative Micro data masking - Information loss in Micro data.
Module:3 Static Data Anonymization on Multidimensional Data 7 hours
Privacy – Preserving Methods - Classification of Data in a Multidimensional Dataset - Group-
based Anonymization: k-Anonymity, l-Diversity, t-Closeness.
Module:4 Anonymization on Complex Data Structu res 8 hours
Privacy-Preserving Graph Data, Privacy-Preserving Time Series Data, Time Series Data
Protection Methods, Privacy Preservation of Longitudinal Data, Privacy Preservation of
Transaction Data.
Module:5 Threats to Anonymized Data 6 hours
Threats to Anonymized Data, Threats to Data Structures, Threats by Anonymization
Techniques: Randomization, k-Anonymization, l-Diversity, t-Closeness.
Module:6 Dynamic Data Protection 5 hours
Dynamic Data Protection: Tokenization, Understanding Tokenization, Use Cases for
Dynamic Data Protection, Benefits of Tokenization Compared to Other Methods,
Components for Tokenization.
Module:7 Privacy-Preserving Test Data Generation and Privacy 5 hours
Regulations
Test Data Fundamentals - Insufficiencies of Anonymized Test Data. Privacy regulations: UK
Data Protection Act, Swiss Data Protection Act, HIPPA, General Data Protection Regulation.
Module:8 Contemporary Issues 2 hours
Total Lecture hours: 45 hours
Text Book
1. NatarajVenkataramanan, AshwinShriram, Data Privacy: Principles and Practice, 2016,
1st Edition, Taylor & Francis. (ISBN No.: 978-1-49-872104-2), United Kingdom.
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Reference Books
1. AncoHundepool, Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Luisa Franconi, Sarah Giessing, Eric Schulte
Nordholt, Keith Spicer, Peter-Paul de Wolf, Statistical Disclosure Control, 2012, 1st
Edition Wiley. (ISBN No.: 978-1-11-997815-2), United States.
2. George T. Duncan. Mark Elliot, Juan-Jose Salazar-GonZalez, Statistical Confidentiality:
Principle and Practice. 2011, 1st Edition, Springer. (ISBN No.: 978-1-44-197801-1).
Mode of Evaluation: CAT / written assignment / Quiz / FAT
Recommended by Board of Studies 04-03-2022
Approved by Academic Council No.65 Date 17-03-2022
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