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| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| sep 7 | sep 8 | sep 9 First day of classes |
sep 10 MTG 1 (ms): Introduction (ONLINE) 🎥 Preparation: Listen to Constitutional Podcast: Privacy (2018) Assigned: Take control of your data! |
sep 11 |
| sep 14 | sep 15 MTG 2 (ms): Targeted Advertising (ONLINE) 🎥 Preparation: Read Wei et al. (2020) ❓ |
sep 16 DUE: Sign up to present papers |
sep 17 MTG 3 (ms): Privacy Legislation (FAQ) Preparation: Read GDPR (Articles 3-6(f), 7, 12-22, 25-34, 77-80, 82-83) ❓ |
sep 18 DUE: Take control of your data! Assigned: GDPR case study |
| sep 21 | sep 22 MTG 4 (sboger): Web tracking 🎥 Preparation: Read NYT experiment (2019) and Roesner et al. (2012) ❓ |
sep 23 | sep 24 MTG 5 (jweissko): Datacenter Infrastructure and Data Deletion 🎥 Preparation: Read DELF (2020) ❓ |
sep 25 DUE: GDPR case study Assigned: Project proposal |
| sep 28 | sep 29 MTG 6 (all): GDPR Presentations ❓ |
sep 30 | oct 1 MTG 7 (sthoma41): GDPR Compliance (FAQ) Preparation: Read GDPRBench (2020) ❓ |
oct 2 DUE: Project proposal |
| oct 5 Assigned: Final project |
oct 6 MTG 8 (hchoi26): Decentralized Applications (FAQ) 🎥 Preparation: Read Blockstack (2017) ❓ |
oct 7 | oct 8 MTG 9 (kdakalba): Information Flow Control (1) (FAQ) 🎥 Preparation: Read Resin (2009) ❓ |
oct 9 |
| oct 12 Indigenous Peoples' Day |
oct 13 MTG 10 (mmcgrat3, wkuenne): Information Flow Control (2) (FAQ) 🎥 Preparation: Read Jacqueline (2016) ❓ |
oct 14 | oct 15 MTG 11 (jcgn): Normative Perspectives Preparation: Read Véliz (2019) ❓ Guest session with Julia Netter 🎥 |
oct 16 Assigned: Mid-term survey |
| oct 19 | oct 20 MTG 12 (asriva11): Policy Enforcement (FAQ) 🎥 Preparation: Read Riverbed (2019) ❓ |
oct 21 | oct 22 MTG 13 (amahaja5): Encrypted Databases (FAQ, Demo) 🎥 Preparation: Read CryptDB (2011) ❓ |
oct 23 |
| oct 26 | oct 27 MTG 14 (ragerup): Web Services over Encrypted Data (FAQ) 🎥 Preparation: Read Mylar (2014) ❓ |
oct 28 | oct 29 MTG 15: Project Conference (I) 🎥 |
oct 30 |
| nov 2 | nov 3 Election Day |
nov 4 | nov 5 No class, hack on projects |
nov 6 DUE: Mid-project report |
| nov 9 | nov 10 MTG 16 (yxue11): Keybase (FAQ) 🎥 Preparation: Read Keybase Server, Keybase and Stellar ❓ |
nov 11 | nov 12 MTG 17 (cnelso13, zyu37): Differential Privacy 🎥 Preparation: Watch DP explainer Preparation: Read PINQ (2009) ❓ |
nov 13 |
| nov 16 | nov 17 MTG 18 (rzuo): Private Machine Learning 🎥 Preparation: Read Sage (2019) ❓ |
nov 18 | nov 19 MTG 19: Project Conference (II) 🎥 |
nov 20 |
| nov 23 | nov 24 MTG 20 (zlai4, yxin9): Secure Computation 🎥 Preparation: Read Ryoan (2016) ❓ |
nov 25 Thanksgiving Recess |
nov 26 Thanksgiving Recess |
nov 27 Thanksgiving Recess |
| nov 30 | dec 1 MTG 21 (ndo3): Location Security 🎥 Preparation: Read DP3T (2020), focus on §2.1, §2.2, §5 (skip/skim hybrid design) ❓ |
dec 2 | dec 3 MTG 22 (all): Project presentations 🎥 DUE: Final project presentation |
dec 4 Last day of classes |
| dec 7 Remote exam period |
dec 8 Remote exam period |
dec 9 DUE: Final project writeup and code Remote exam period |
dec 10 Remote exam period |
dec 11 Remote exam period |