ACIT4280 Privacy by Design Emneplan

Privacy by Design is a fundamental requirement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for all systems operating on personal information. This course provides an introduction to privacy and data protection including the legislation such as the GDPR, privacy enhancing technologies, privacy management, designing for privacy, and privacy patterns in software design. It enables the students to understand regulation, to identify privacy risk and consequences of data breaches, introduces them to privacy controls and builds skills in their application in a structured privacy engineering process.

General knowledge about information security, data processing and information system architecture would be beneficial.

The course will mainly consist of lectures and supervisory sessions. Students work individually on exercises or reading assignments given throughout the course. In addition, students will work in groups of two on a project involving IoT. In rare cases, the size of the group may be adjusted, depending on the judgement of the course responsible. A project report documenting the project and its results will be handed in at the end of the course.

The course will provide background and preparatory reading materials. Reading assignments and media will be provided on the electronic learning platform.

The following coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

Two compulsory assignments:

• One project proposal, outlining the rationale and plan for the project. Between 500 and 1000 words.
• One project report, documenting the project and its results. Between 2500 and 5000 words.

The deadlines for submitting the compulsory assignments and other details are stipulated in the teaching plan made available at the start of the semester.

• Online course material for preparatory reading (flipped classroom approach)
• Bi-weekly lecture and case discussions
• Bi-weekly presentations of student home assignment cases

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

One group assignment (2-5 students appointed by teacher) consisting two parts: a report and a presentation.

All printed and handwritten aids.

Grade scale A-F.

Grade scale A-F

One internal examiner. External examiners are used periodically.

An interest for networking, computer and software architecture.