Privacy

This material covers the following learning outcomes:

• Discuss the general problem of privacy, and some of the techniques used to preserve privacy.
• Given a scenario, apply your knowledge of UK/EU data protection law to discuss the implications of the law to this situation.
• Given a scenario, apply analytical strategies to accurately identify problems with the anonymity of data release.
• Given a data set, apply the data generalization techniques to improve k-anonymity, taking into account possible attacks.