Educating engineers: Teaching privacy in a world of open doors

Jan 1, 2014
By: Landau S IEEE Security and Privacy 66 - 70
Abstract
Teaching privacy in a separate course affords the ability to spend time on techniques and technologies, social and policy aspects, and laws and regulations of privacy. A privacy course should aim to present sufficient information and context such that students can argue intelligently about privacy. A second aim should be to include diverse viewpoints, such as social sciences, humanities, and arts. A privacy course should cover both technologies and threats; valid arguments exist for covering these in either order. On the technical side, cryptography and anonymization tools are important. A number of special topics are appropriate for a privacy course. This includes the use of closed-circuit TV and wiretapping for investigations, the use of genomic data, the privacy risks raised by the Internet of Things, and the right to read anonymously. Such topics can be directly part of the course or can provide an excellent source for student papers and projects.
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