COMP 555 Information Privacy

4 credits · Computer Science · Faculty of Science · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Conceptual foundations of information privacy: security and cryptography, privacy by design, privacy threats. Technical controls for supporting privacy: authorization, authentication, access control, malware and intrusion detection. Application-specific privacy concerns of databases, web and mobile …

Prerequisites

COMP 303

Prerequisite courses: COMP 303

Restrictions

Not open to students who have taken COMP 599 when the topic was "Topics in Mobile Application Development".

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