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Il corso è stato realizzato nell’ambito del progetto "ALMA - Advanced Learning Multimedia Alliance", Digital Education Hub finanziato dall’Unione europea – Next Generation EU, PNRR, Missione 4, Componente 1, Investimento 3.4 "Didattica e competenze universitarie avanzate".

Computer Science, Cybersecurity

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Privacy Preserving Information Access

Privacy Preserving Information Access

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Il corso è stato realizzato nell’ambito del progetto "ALMA - Advanced Learning Multimedia Alliance", Digital Education Hub finanziato dall’Unione europea – Next Generation EU, PNRR, Missione 4, Componente 1, Investimento 3.4 "Didattica e competenze universitarie avanzate".

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Tag del corso

Computer Science, Cybersecurity

Lingua

Inglese

Costo

Free

Modalità

Autoapprendimento

APERTURA

28 febbraio 2026

ORE DI FORMAZIONE

16

Certificazione

Attestato

THE COURSE IS OPEN

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Descrizione

The course introduces its participants to the concept of Privacy, emphasizing its ethical, legal, and economic importance in managing user data. It explores privacy's role in cybersecurity across various domains, such as databases, click logs, medical data, and geospatial information.

After covering the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the course focuses on privacy techniques from microdata protection, differential privacy, and geomasking.

Docenti

Immagine dell'utente

Guglielmo Faggioli

Course outline

Privacy Preserving Information Access

Platform Guide: How to Navigate the MOOC

Welcome to the Course

Getting to know you

Module 1: Introduction

Introduction to the concept of privacy and its ethical, legal, and economic implications

Databases Background

Test your knowledge

Module 2: Introduction

Macrodata Protection

Microdata Protection

k-Anonymity

Test your knowledge

Module 3: Introduction

Differential Privacy

Differential Privacy Applications

Geomasking

Test your knowledge

Go further

Course evaluation

Introduction of the Course

1.1 Privacy definition

1.1 Ethical and economical aspects

1.1 GDPR

1.2 Introduction to Databases

1.2 Search Engines and Recommender Systems

2.1 What are macrodata?

2.1 How to protect macrodata?

2.1 Exercise 1 - Solution

2.2 What are microdata?

2.2 How to protect microdata?

2.2 Exercise 2 - Solution

2.3 k-anonymity

2.3 Beyond k-Anonimity: l-diversity

3.1 Introduction to Differential Privacy

3.1 Differentially Private mechanisms

3.2 Microsoft LDP

3.2 Google RAPPOR

3.2 Exercise - Solution

3.3 The importance of Geomasking

3.3 Heuristic approaches to Geomasking

3.3 Metric Differential Privacy

Summing up the Course

Risultati di apprendimento attesi

The overall goal of the course is to familiarize students with the concept of privacy and develop critical thinking and analytical skills to address various situations that may jeopardize the privacy of users of a digital system.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of mathematics, algebra, and statistics.

THE COURSE IS OPEN

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Destinatari

CDS students and enthusiastic outsiders.

Accesso e micro-credenziale

Pass with at least 70% of the questions on the final test. Online test with at least 18 multiple-choice questions.

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