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| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| sep 2 | sep 3 | sep 4 | sep 5 MTG 1 (kda): Introduction Preparation: Listen to Constitutional Podcast: Privacy & read The Bootlegger & Taxi Data Attack (up to Applying Differential Privacy) First day of classes |
sep 6 Assigned: Take control of your data! |
| sep 9 | sep 10 MTG 2 (kda): Data Deletion Preparation: Read DELF (2020) ❓ |
sep 11 | sep 12 MTG 3 (kda): Privacy Legislation (FAQ) Preparation: Read GDPR (Articles 3-6(f), 7, 12-22, 25-34, 77-80, 82-83) |
sep 13 DUE: Sign up to present papers DUE: Take control of your data! Assigned: GDPR Case Study |
| sep 16 | sep 17 MTG 4: User Perceptions Preparation: Read Design Patterns (2024) & Padlock Icons (2022) & this blog post ❓ |
sep 18 | sep 19 MTG 5: GDPR Compliance Preparation: Read K9db (2023) ❓ |
sep 20 DUE: GDPR Case Study Assigned: Project proposal |
| sep 23 | sep 24 MTG 6: Decentralized Applications Preparation: Read Nostr overview, motivation, protocol, clients, and relays ❓ |
sep 25 | sep 26 MTG 7 (kda): Information Flow Control Preparation: No homework! |
sep 27 |
| sep 30 | oct 1 MTG 8: GDPR Compliance Preparation: Read RuleKeeper (2023) ❓ |
oct 2 | oct 3 MTG 9: IFC (1) Preparation: Read Resin (2009) ❓ |
oct 4 DUE: Project proposal |
| oct 7 | oct 8 MTG 10: IFC (2) Preparation: Read Sesame (2024) ❓ |
oct 9 | oct 10 MTG 11: Policy Enforcement (FAQ) Preparation: Read Riverbed (2019) ❓ |
oct 11 |
| oct 14 Indigenous Peoples' Day |
oct 15 MTG 12: Secure Computation Preparation: Read Ryoan (2016) ❓ |
oct 16 | oct 17 MTG 13 (kda): Differential Privacy Preparation: No homework! |
oct 18 Assigned: Differential Privacy in Practice |
| oct 21 | oct 22 MTG 14: Private Messaging Preparation: Read Vuvuzela (2015) ❓ |
oct 23 | oct 24 MTG 15: Private Machine Learning Preparation: Read PrivateKube (2021) ❓ |
oct 25 Assigned: Individual Mid-Project Report |
| oct 28 | oct 29 MTG 16: DP Advertising Preparation: Read Cookie Monster (2024) ❓ |
oct 30 | oct 31 MTG 17: Practitioner Perceptions Preparation: Read DP Tooling (2024) ❓ |
nov 1 DUE: Differential Privacy in Practice DUE: Individual Mid-project Report |
| nov 4 | nov 5 Election Day |
nov 6 | nov 7 No class, hack on projects |
nov 8 Assigned: Cryptography Crash Course |
| nov 11 | nov 12 MTG 18 (kda): Cryptographic Approaches Preparation: No homework! |
nov 13 | nov 14 MTG 19: Private Data Analytics Preparation: Read Orchard (2020) ❓ |
nov 15 |
| nov 18 | nov 19 MTG 20: Multi-party Computation Preparation: Read Gun Registry (2023) ❓ |
nov 20 | nov 21 MTG 21: Private Web Search Preparation: Read Tiptoe (2023) ❓ |
nov 22 DUE: Cryptography Crash Course |
| nov 25 | nov 26 MTG 22: Encrypted Databases (FAQ) Preparation: Read CryptDB (2011) ❓ |
nov 27 Thanksgiving Recess |
nov 28 Thanksgiving Recess |
nov 29 Thanksgiving Recess |
| dec 2 | dec 3 No class, hack on projects |
dec 4 | dec 5 MTG 23 (all): Project presentations DUE: Final project presentation (Group 1) |
dec 6 |
| dec 9 | dec 10 MTG 24 (all): Project presentations DUE: Final project presentation (Group 2) |
dec 11 | dec 12 Last day of classes |
dec 13 DUE: Final project writeup and code Final exam period |
| dec 16 Final exam period |
dec 17 Final exam period |
dec 18 Final exam period |
dec 19 Final exam period |
dec 20 Final exam period |