COURSES

Goals

New personalized services and next generation networks, such as pervasive networks, present new threats to privacy sensitive personal data. The goal of this course is to provide a broad overview of the technologies, services, applications and procedures for privacy protection. The students will gain theoretical and practical knowledge about privacy protection related measures, privacy legislation, basic privacy-enhancing technologies and identity management systems. Gained knowledge will enable the students to use and develop privacy protection measures. The students will be able to analyze an information system with respect to personal data protection, evaluate privacy threats, and select appropriate privacy-enhancing measures. When developing their own information applications and solutions the knowledge will enable the students to meet the privacy requirements imposed by environment, legislation and standards. The students will also be able to continue research and development work in the area of privacy protection and identity management.

Curriculum

Introduction: basic definitions (privacy, personal data, data processing, data controller, identity, anonymity, pseudonym, virtual identity etc.), privacy threats and risks, basic privacy protection principles Privacy regulation and legislation: directives 2002/58/EC, eIDAS and GDPR, Slovene legislation Basic concepts of the General Data Protection Regulation: consent, rights of access, right to be forgotten, right to data portability Basic privacy-enhancing technologies Identity management: basics, scenarios, requirements, mechanisms Identity management systems and single sign-on