ISOM-240 Data Privacy and Compliance
Students will analyze and evaluate privacy risks facing individual and organizational data and then design and evaluate solutions to protect the data. The course starts by introducing students to basic data privacy principles and the deteriorating state of privacy with frequent data breaches and identity theft explosion. The course then explores the disruption to privacy caused by emerging technologies like mobile, cloud, big data and social media and the consequences. Different privacy solutions including privacy enhancing technologies like Tors, Onions and encryption will be introduced. Various US Data privacy laws like HIPAA are explored and then compared to the European general data privacy regulation (GDPR) regime. The course ends by introducing different data privacy best practices and the "Privacy by Design" paradigm.