Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age

Safeguard sensitive data in a digitized world through exploring privacy engineering, ethical foundations & emerging challenges.

  • 0.4 CEU / 4 PDH credits
  • Launched 2023
  • 4 courses
  • 4 hours

Course Description

Privacy has emerged to be a critical aspect of our increasingly digitized world. Technological innovations are progressively becoming more intrusive into our personal lives attempting to extract sensitive personal information. This is often detrimental to an individual when any breach or spillage of data leads to a severe impact such as financial loss or identity theft. This course series, provided in collaboration with IEEE Digital Privacy, an IEEE Future Directions Initiative, aims to provide a better understanding of digital privacy, how we operationalize privacy in an organizational context, how we engineer privacy in our systems, how we make privacy usable for end users, and finally how we address the emergent technological challenges to privacy.

Course Objectives

  • Review core concepts of digital privacy
  • Consider taxonomy and drivers of privacy
  • Examine ethical foundations
  • Discuss frameworks to operationalize privacy
  • Review engineering privacy in systems and technologies
  • Examine usable privacy
  • Consider emergent technological challenges to privacy

Authors and Instructors

Travis Breaux

Associate professor of computer science in the Software and Societal Systems Department at Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Travis Breaux is a Senior Member of IEEE and an associate professor of computer science in the Software and Societal Systems Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the creator of the Privacy Engineering course, included in CMU’s Masters of Privacy Engineering Degree program, and he serves as executive editor of the International Association for Privacy Professionals textbook used in the IAPP Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT) program. Finally, Dr. Breaux has co-led several award-winning privacy security research projects focused on studying new ways to align privacy law, organizational policy and software engineering design, using formal methods, as well as static and dynamic code analysis.

Gurvirender Tejay

Chair of Education and Training for the IEEE Digital Privacy Initiative

Dr. Gurvirender Tejay is the Chair of Education and Training for the IEEE Digital Privacy Initiative. His research expertise is in the field of cybersecurity management and digital privacy. Within cybersecurity, his work has focused on insider threat detection, security governance, policy compliance, security culture, and developing secure systems. Dr. Tejay is currently serving as an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He has secured over $10 million US dollars in grant funds to support the education, training and development of professionals and educators in cybersecurity management. Dr. Tejay was selected to serve as a High-Level Facilitator (Ministers Track) for the United Nation’s World Summit on the Information Society Forum in 2020. He also serves as an Editor-in-Chief for the Organizational Cybersecurity Journal. Dr. Tejay received his doctorate in information systems from Virginia Commonwealth University. He also holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Chicago, and Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

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