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COMPSCI 3DP3

Data Privacy

Undergraduate

Fall 2025

Topics

  • Basics of data privacy
  • De-anonymization
  • Membership and reconstruction attacks
  • Differential privacy
  • Privacy-preserving mechanisms
  • Privacy-utility trade-offs and cost of privacy
  • Adaptive data analysis

Readings

  • online textbook: C. Dwork and A. Roth, The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy, Foundations and Trends, 2014. https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~aaroth/Papers/privacybook.pdf
    optional
  • Privacy desiderata: What does “privacy” mean in learning and statis- tics?
    required
Sources