Seminar in Identity, Privacy and Security


JIE1001H

JIE1001H — Seminar in Identity, Privacy and Security

This interdisciplinary course examines issues of identity, privacy and security from a range of technological, policy and scientific perspectives, highlighting the relationships, overlaps, tensions, tradeoffs and synergies between them. Based on a combination of public lectures, in-depth seminar discussions and group project work, it will study contemporary identity, privacy and security systems, practices and controversies, with such focal topics as biometric identification schemes, public key encryption infrastructure, privacy enhancing technologies, identity theft risks and protections, on-line fraud detection and prevention, and computer crime, varying between offerings. Seminars open to general attendance will be scheduled regularly during the first part of each lecture. The second part of the lecture will be restricted to students enrolled in the course.