ISOM-240 Data Privacy and Compliance
Students will analyze and evaluate Data privacy risks and management challenges facing individuals and organizational data both at the local and global level 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 across the globe. The course then explores the disruption to privacy caused by emerging technologies like mobile, cloud, big data and social media across the globe and the consequences with associated management challenges. Different privacy solutions including privacy enhancing technologies like Tors, Onions and encryption will be introduced. The course then delve into the different aspects of the European new general data privacy regulation (GDPR) and its impact to data privacy management in both Europe and other parts of the world like USA. We explore Various US Data privacy laws like HIPAA and then compare them to GDPR. The course ends by introducing different data privacy best practices and the Privacy by Design paradigm.