Computer Science 691PT - S-HotTopics/PrivacyEnhancTech

Have you ever wondered how governments, companies, and organizations surveil and restrict the activities and behavior of their Internet users? If so, you may find this course interesting. This is a seminar course that targets special issues in privacy enhancing technologies for the Internet. The topics covered in the course include anonymous communications, Internet censorship and circumvention, Internet surveillance, privacy-preserving social networking, and private computation and storage.

Open to CMPSCI graduate students only. The class will meet weekly. Students are asked to read and review two papers per week. Every student is also required to present two papers to the class during the semester (the actual number depends on the class enrollment). Additionally, students who register for 3 credit hours are required to work with the instructor to pick a research project, which should be reported and presented by the end of the semester. LECT 01=3 cr; Lect 02=1 cr. UNDERGRADUATES AND GRADUATE STUDENTS FROM OTHER DEPARTMENTS WITH INSTRUCTOR PERMISSION. STUDENTS NEEDING SPECIAL PERMISSION MUST REQUEST OVERRIDES VIA THE ON-LINE FORM: https://www.cs.umass.edu/overrides.