CSE 291: Fall 2024

Instructor:

Imani Munyaka (drmunyaka at ucsd dot edu)
Office hours: Virtual on Tuesday @ 10am - 11am

TAs:

TBA Office Hours: TBA

Tutors:

Not Applicable to this course

Lectures:

Tuesday/Thursday 2:00pm-3:20pm /Zoom online

Discussion:

Not Applicable to this course

Class Resources:

Zoom links and gradebook on Canvas
Q&A on Piazza
Assignment submission on Gradescope
Lecture schedule, readings, and course policies on this web page

Grading:

10%: Attendance
20%: Discussion Lead
30%: Reading Notes
40%: Project

Course Overview

Tentative Schedule

Week	Date	Topic	Readings	Discussion	Assignment
0	9/24
	9/26	What is privacy?
1	10/1	What is privacy?	“The Right to Privacy” Warren and Brandeis Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have Nothing to Hide by DANIEL SOLOVE in The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 15, 2011	Find team mates
	10/3	Case: Griswold v. Connecticut	Video	- Slides	Reading Notes Due
2	10/8	No Class - Pre-Record Lecture Video	A Taxonomy of Privacy by Solove, Daniel J. Page 477 -491	- Slides	Reading Notes Due
	10/10	Case: Commonwealth vs Kurtz	News Article	Yuke & Mengqi - Slides	Reading Notes Due
3	10/15	Technical Perspectives - Data Collection and Use	Introduction to The Privacy Act	- Slides	Reading Notes Due
	10/17	Case: Clear View AI, Janecyk v. IBM	News Article News Article 2 Case File	Tony & Baicheng - Slides	Reading Notes Due
4	10/22	Terms of Service, Privacy Policies and the Law	NYTimes Article	> - Slides	Reading Notes Due
	10/17	Case: hiQ Labs, inc v LinkedIn Corp, A.T. v. OpenAI LP	Case No.: 13-MD-02430-LHK (N.D. Cal. Sep. 26, 2013 News Article	Akshat & Brandon - Slides	Reading Notes Due
5	10/29	Anonymization	Podcast by Softcat News Article		Reading Notes Due
	10/31	Case: Single Resolution Board (SRB) v European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)	Article from William Fryer	Eric & Goushenghui	Reading Notes Due
6	11/5	No Class, Pre-Record Lecture Video, PETs	The Earn It Act (USA) The Snoopers Charter [UK] Considering India’s Encryption Policy Dilemma Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC)		Reading Notes Due
	11/7	Stories: LavaBit & After Silkroad	Darknet Diaries Ep 24 Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Ep 21 (start at 9 min mark)	Fan & Zheming	Reading Notes Due
7	11/12	Differential Privacy	Differential Privacy 101 Basics Differential Privacy - Simply Explained		Reading Notes Due
	11/14	Case: Alabama v. U.S. Dep't of Commerce	News Article UNO Center for Public Affairs	Hou & Jiaxin	Reading Notes Due
8	11/19	LLMs and AI Governance	AI Bill of Rights AI Risk Management Framework		Reading Notes Due
	11/21	Case: Walters vs OpenAI	News Article by Rebecca Cahill Video	Haoxi & Shreyansh	Reading Notes Due
9	11/26	Virtual Class - Antitrust & Criminal Justice	Senate Hearing 1/24/24 FTC v. Facebook, Inc. Antitrust Law	Zimo & Jing & Chihao	Reading Notes Due
	11/28	No class
10	12/3	What is Privacy? - Revisited	The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff		Reading Notes Due
	12/5	Presentations
Finals	12/10	Reflection Submission
	12/12

Assignments

Project

Students are welcome to work alone or in groups of two. The project must be approved by the instructor. It can take one of the following forms: 1) contribution to an open-source security software project related to privacy, 2) instructional videos related to privacy, 3) medim article related to privacy, or 4) privacy related research project that can be conducted within the 10 Week period. At the end of the quarter each project will be presented to the class. Then, students submit a short document about their experience and complete an extended response questionnaire where they reflect on what they've learned throughout the quarter.

Reading Notes

Reading notes are due before each class.