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IEEE courses offer professional development hours (PDHs) and continuing education units (CEUs) to help engineers maintain professional licenses and demonstrate a commitment to professional development.
IEEE Digital Privacy Courses: Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age
Privacy has emerged to be a critical aspect of our increasingly digitized world. The IEEE Digital Privacy Initiative has created a 4-course program that 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.
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Courses in this program include:
Digital Privacy: Principles, Regulations, and Ethics
Length: 1 hr | Earn 1 PDH / 0.1 CEUs
In collaboration with IEEE Educational Activities, we are happy to announce our first course on Digital Privacy. In this course, we introduce privacy as a concept and clarify common misconceptions surrounding privacy, leading to defining digital privacy and introducing a privacy taxonomy capturing common privacy-related violations. We also focus on core concepts necessary in the organizational context including common privacy principles. In addition, we focus on the key drivers of digital privacy around the globe, namely seminal laws and regulations. Finally, we explore the ethical foundations of privacy and discuss the use of the ethical framework to help practitioners make sound decisions in complex situations.
Instructor: Gurvirender Tejay
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Digital Privacy: Understanding the Operational Framework
Length: 1 hr | Earn 1 PDH / 0.1 CEUs
In this course, we discuss the frameworks to operationalize privacy in an organizational context. We examine contextual integrity and FAIR/OECD principles. Next, we discuss Privacy by Design for guidance on designing privacy for technological systems. We also examine how to enforce purpose restrictions and get a better understanding of the privacy operational lifecycle. Finally, we focus on privacy impact assessments and discuss the different privacy maturity models along with their benefits and associated challenges.
Instructor: Gurvirender Tejay
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Digital Privacy: Designing Trustworthy Systems and Technologies
Length: 1 hr | Earn 1 PDH / 0.1 CEUs
In this course, we focus on how to engineer privacy in systems using modern tools and methods. We start with privacy engineering principles and explore various methods to design systems for privacy protection. Next, we discuss requirement management focusing on control mapping and traceability, and address system-level design by examining data flow. Finally, we discuss how the design of algorithms can affect privacy protection.
Instructor: Travis Breaux
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Digital Privacy: Implementation and Usability
Length: 1 hr | Earn 1 PDH / 0.1 CEUs
In this course, we focus on understanding how to make privacy usable for end users. We discuss the usability challenges and explore the human-in-the-loop framework. Next, we focus on privacy decision-making, examine the privacy paradox as a phenomenon, and the insights offered by the privacy calculus. Finally, we explore potential solutions by first addressing the challenge of measuring privacy and then focusing on design principles for systems and technologies.
Instructor: Gurvirender Tejay
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IEEE | IAPP Data Privacy Engineering Collection
IEEE has partnered with the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) to provide the IEEE | IAPP Data Privacy Engineering Collection to organizations, delivering the most critical training, resources, and content for engineers and technology professionals tasked with understanding, maintaining, and protecting data privacy.
Learn more about the IEEE | IAPP Data Privacy Engineering Collection at IEEE Xplore
Additional IEEE Courses on Data Privacy
The following courses are currently available on the IEEE Learning Network and are applicable more broadly beyond AI systems.
AI Standards: System Design Considerations for Data Privacy
Length: 1 hr | Earn 1 PDH / 0.1 CEUs
This course focuses on design considerations and how the use of data and the data lifecycle play a fundamental role in privacy design. The goals of the course include exploring how software engineers ensure that privacy engineering requirements are satisfied within the contexts of use, end-user, third-parties, and potential re-purposing of the application or service developed. The course provides practical tips and guides as techniques the software engineer or developer can use to become versant in privacy design. A software engineer or developer can also implement these concepts into their organization’s workflows. Topics include review of fundamental data and design considerations related to software engineering as it relates elements of a privacy assessment to software engineering and development; review data lifecycle as it relates to software engineering and privacy assessment; identifying practical techniques to map requirements to privacy controls and evaluation of privacy controls with use cases and user stories, ensuring functional and non-functional requirements are satisfied equally.
Instructor: Matthew Silveira
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AI Standards: Configuring Systems for Privacy
Length: 1 hr | Earn 1 PDH / 0.1 CEUs
The goals of this course are to familiarize the software engineer with key elements and concepts that can enhance privacy capabilities and safeguards in the software engineering and development process. Practical techniques are used to help the learner understand how to harness the assessment process to enhance privacy requirements and privacy-related controls. By the end of this course, you will understand how privacy assessments integrate into software engineering and software development models with an emphasis on fundamentals. Topics include understanding the elements of a privacy assessment as it relates to software engineering and development; reviewing the stakeholders in a privacy assessment and the context of that assessment as it relates to requirements development; understanding the organizational stakeholders and their roles within the execution of a privacy assessment.
Instructor: Matthew Silveira