Meiko Jensen

Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University, Sweden

From anonymization to protection goals for privacy engineering

 

Abstract

Effective protection of sensitive personal data is one of the biggest challenges in IT systems these days. Technical means to enhance security and privacy of such data therefore are key topics in today's computer science education globally.
In this lecture, I will focus on a selected set of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) that can be implemented to safeguard data processing in a secure and legally compliant manner. I will iterate over the six classical protection goals of privacy and security, briefly discuss relevant legal and economic requirements, and provide some core insights into anonymization and pseudonymization techniques, as well as other relevant privacy concepts in use today.

Course materials

• Slides from Lecture 1-4 [pdf]
• Exercise [pdf]

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