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\title{Protection of Sensitive Information\\{\small Proposal for a PhD course of 30 h}}
\author{{Catuscia Palamidessi} }
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\section{Motivations and history of the topic (1 h)}

\section{Anonymous communication (total: 5 h)}
\begin{itemize}
\item{Crowds (1 h)}
\item{Tor (1 h)}
\item{DC Nets (1 h)}
\item{Probabilistic definitions of anonymity (2 h)}
\end{itemize}

\section{Privacy protection in datasets (total: 12 h)}
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\item{Privacy protection via $k$-anonymity and $\ell$-anonymity techniques (2 h)}
\item{De-anonymization attacks (2 h)}
\item{Differential privacy (4 h)}
\item{Trade-off between privacy and utility (2 h)}
\item{Extensions of differential privacy (2 h)}
\end{itemize}

\section{Location privacy  (total: 3 h)}
\begin{itemize}
\item{Cloaking and triangulation attacks (1 h)}
\item{Optimal Bayesian approaches  (1 h)}
\item{Geo-indistinguishability  (1 h)}
\end{itemize}

\section{Quantitative Information Flow (total: 9 h)}
%\item{Side-channel attacks (1 h)}
\begin{itemize}
\item{Vulnerability and entropy -- operational interpretation (1 h)}
\item{Information-theoretic approaches (3 h)}
\item{Relation with differential privacy (1 h)}
\item{Decision-theoretic approaches: $g$-leakage  (2 h)}
\item{The lattice of information (1 h)}
\item{Axiomatization (1 h)}
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