according to the course plan.

Content

Judicial context for integrity privacy in Europe.
Basic concepts and terminology in the area of privacy enhancing technologies.
A selection of privacy enhancing technologies.

Learning outcomes

After completion of the course, the student should be able to:

identify threats against privacy in an IT system,
explain and use basic terminology in the area correctly,
find and use documentation of privacy-related problems and technologies,
demonstrate an overview of privacy enhancing technologies (PET),
analyse descriptions of PET systems with regard to their protection of privacy and function,
identify vulnerabilities from PET system descriptions, predict their equivalent threat, and choose countermeasures against identified threats and show their efficiency,
compare countermeasures and evaluate their side effects,
present and explain their reasoning to others,

in order to

as citizen and expert be able to discuss privacy in general and PET in particular,
in professional life and/or research projects be able to use existing privacy enhancing technologies and develop their own.