Lectures and practice sessions
Compared to the last year, the schedule of the course has been slightly reworked. The content has also been somewhat reworked.
The information in this page gives the materials for the lectures and practice sessions, as well as references to similar lectures in past years (where relevant). This information includes the lecture slides, as well as instructions to download and/or install tools that will be used in the practice sessions.
Weeks 2-15 (19.02-28.05.2025, various lecturers): see the content for previous year
- 19.Feb Week 2 Dan Bogdanov: Lecture: Course introduction. Introduction to privacy, data protection and Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Analysis of existing systems.
- 26.Feb Week 3 Kristjan Krips: Attacks on privacy
- 05.Mar Week 4 Triin Siil: Legal status of privacy technologies.
- 12.Mar Week 5 Jan Willemson: introduction to cryptography, in non-technical way.
- 19.Mar Week 6 Raimundas Matulevičius: Designing privacy-preserving systems (part 1), focusing on GDPR.
- 26.Mar Week 7 Raimundas Matulevičius: Designing privacy-preserving systems (part 2), focusing on modelling of business processes using PETs.
- 02.Apr Week 8 Liina Kamm: Introduction to data subject privacy enhancing techniques. Pseudonymisation.
- 09.Apr Week 9 Liina Kamm, Fedor Stomakhin: Anonymisation. Practice session on anonymisation.
- 16.Apr Week 10 Fedor Stomakhin, Liina Kamm: Privacy-Preserving AI. Data synthesis.
- 23.Apr Week 11 Alisa Pankova: Differential privacy.
- 30.Apr Week 12 Nikita Snetkov and Peeter Laud: Cryptography for privacy preservation; privacy-preserving crypto primitives. Ring signatures, attribute-based encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, proxy re-encryption, etc. As non-technically as possible.
- 07.May Week 13 Pille Pullonen-Raudvere: privacy-preserving protocols for specific and general computational tasks.
- 14.May Week 14 Riivo Talviste, Dan Bogdanov: Privacy-preserving computations. We will use Sharemind as technology for instruction.
- 21.May Week 15 Jan Willemson and Dan Bogdanov: example / exemplary use-cases for privacy-preserving cryptography.
- 28.May Week 16 Liina Kamm, Peeter Laud: Concluding seminars, and problem-solving. Group work that is similar to the individual work in the exam.