Content and intended learning outcomes

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.