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| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| sep 6 | sep 7 | sep 8 First day of classes |
sep 9 MTG 1 (ms): Introduction 🎥 Preparation: Listen to Constitutional Podcast: Privacy (2018) Assigned: Take control of your data! |
sep 10 |
| sep 13 | sep 14 MTG 2 (ms): Targeted Advertising 🎥 Preparation: Read Wei et al. (2020) ❓ |
sep 15 | sep 16 MTG 3 (ms): Privacy Legislation (FAQ) ❓ 🎥 Preparation: Read GDPR (Articles 3-6(f), 7, 12-22, 25-34, 77-80, 82-83) |
sep 17 DUE: Sign up to present papers DUE: Take control of your data! Assigned: GDPR case study |
| sep 20 | sep 21 MTG 4 (zlagumdz): GDPR Compliance (FAQ) ❓ Preparation: Read GDPRBench (2020) |
sep 22 | sep 23 MTG 5 (yhe71, psaluja, eeng2): Datacenter Infrastructure and Data Deletion ❓ Preparation: Read DELF (2020) |
sep 24 DUE: GDPR case study Assigned: Project proposal |
| sep 27 | sep 28 MTG 6 (all): GDPR Presentations |
sep 29 | sep 30 MTG 7 (all): GDPR Presentations |
oct 1 DUE: Project proposal |
| oct 4 | oct 5 MTG 8 (kta1, zlee8, mzhan104): Web Tracking ❓ Preparation: Read NYT experiment (2019) and Matte et al. (2020) Assigned: Final project |
oct 6 | oct 7 MTG 9 (srajesh1, lzhu17, pbiberst): Information Flow Control (1) (FAQ) ❓ Preparation: Read Resin (2009) |
oct 8 |
| oct 11 Indigenous Peoples' Day |
oct 12 MTG 10 (ajeyaraj, jadam2): Information Flow Control (2) (FAQ) ❓ Preparation: Read Jacqueline (2016) |
oct 13 | oct 14 MTG 11 (wli107, jzhang72, zwang302): Secure Computation ❓ Preparation: Read Ryoan (2016) |
oct 15 Assigned: Mid-term survey |
| oct 18 | oct 19 MTG 12 (abhardw7, csarli): Decentralized Applications ❓ Preparation: Read Solid (2017) |
oct 20 | oct 21 MTG 13 (bkilimni, yxu150): Differential Privacy ❓ Preparation: Watch DP explainer Preparation: Read PINQ (2009) |
oct 22 |
| oct 25 | oct 26 MTG 14: Project Conference (1) 📽 Slides |
oct 27 | oct 28 No class, do Differential Privacy Exercise |
oct 29 DUE: Differential Privacy Exercise |
| nov 1 | nov 2 MTG 15 (isharm11, arana16): Private Data Analytics ❓ Preparation: Read Orchard (2020) |
nov 3 | nov 4 MTG 16 (kpal1): Private Machine Learning ❓ Preparation: Read PrivateKube (2021) |
nov 5 DUE: Mid-project report |
| nov 8 | nov 9 MTG 17 (ykim235, whowe2): Policy Enforcement (1) (FAQ) ❓ Preparation: Read Riverbed (2019) |
nov 10 | nov 11 MTG 18 (jmcclel1, mheller6, knelson9): Policy Enforcement (2) ❓ Preparation: Read Zeph (2020) |
nov 12 |
| nov 15 | nov 16 MTG 19 (ctan, raboucha): Encrypted Databases (FAQ) ❓ Preparation: Read CryptDB (2011) |
nov 17 | nov 18 MTG 20 (rpaul5, crusch, ahabib3): Web Services over Encrypted Data (FAQ) ❓ Preparation: Read Mylar (2014) |
nov 19 |
| nov 22 | nov 23 MTG 21 (vmora1, japrk49): Private Search (1) ❓ Preparation: Read Coeus (2021) |
nov 24 Thanksgiving Recess |
nov 25 Thanksgiving Recess |
nov 26 Thanksgiving Recess |
| nov 29 | nov 30 MTG 22 (mzhan147, qhuang27): Private Search (2) ❓ Preparation: Read Dory (2021) |
dec 1 | dec 2 MTG 23 (nchrist9, chitradeep): Keybase (FAQ) ❓ Preparation: Read Keybase Server |
dec 3 |
| dec 6 | dec 7 MTG 24 (all): Project presentations (1) DUE: Final project presentation (Group 1) |
dec 8 | dec 9 MTG 25 (all): Project presentations (2) DUE: Final project presentation (Group 2) |
dec 10 |
| dec 13 Final exam period |
dec 14 Final exam period |
dec 15 Final exam period |
dec 16 Final exam period |
dec 17 DUE: Final project writeup and code Final exam period |
| dec 20 Final exam period |
dec 21 Final exam period |
dec 22 | dec 23 | dec 24 |