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CS 4364 Topics in Data Science

Spring 2020: Data Protection

• Syllabus (.pdf)
• Topics (.txt)
• Intro slides (.pptx)
• Narayanan/Shmatikov Netflix paper (link to external .pdf)
• Homework 1 (.pdf)
• Trackers paper (link to external .pdf)
• Trackers class exercise (.pdf)
• Confidentiality paper: Weaving Technology and Policy Together to Maintain Confidentiality, by Latanya Sweeney, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 1997, pages 98-110. (Do a web search.)
• K-anonymity paper (link to external .pdf)
• Anonymity slides ( .pptx)
• Cryptography and data security by Denning (covering section 1.4.1 and chapter 6) (link to external .pdf)
• Entropy and Huffman codes (.pdf)
• Class Notes 2/25/2020 (.pdf)
• Assignment 2(.pdf)
• Original Java Code for compressing
• Heap.java
• OriginalNode.java
• OriginalMain.java
• Updated Assignment 2(.pdf)
• Updated Java Code for compressing
• Heap.java
• Node.java
• Main.java
• Sample file (.txt)
• Compressed sample file (.bin)
• Class Notes 3/3/2020 (.pdf)
• Dwork's original 2006 paper (link to external .pdf)
• Dwork's book on algorithmic foundations of differential privacy (link to external .pdf)
• Class Notes 3/5/2020 (.pdf)
• Recent news about using genetics to solve a crime (link to an NBC news web page)
• Resolving Individuals Contributing Trace Amounts of DNA to Highly Complex Mixtures Using High-Density SNP Genotyping Microarrays (link to external .pdf)
• Public Access to Genome-Wide Data: Five Views on Balancing Research with Privacy and Protection (link to external .pdf)
• Class Notes 3/10/2020 (.pdf)
• Lecture 23 from Cornell University course (link to external .pdf)
• Lecture 24 from Cornell University course (link to external .pdf)
• Assignment 2 Submission instructions(.pdf)
• Class Notes 3/12/2020 (.pdf)