Bio:
Claudia Diaz received her master degree in Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Vigo (Spain), and her Ph.D. in engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). She is currently an assistant professor at the K.U.Leuven group COSIC (Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography). Her research is broadly focused on the topic of Privacy Enhancing Technologies, where she has more than thirty international peer-reviewed publications on topics including anonymous communications, anonymity metrics, steganographic file systems, traffic analysis and privacy by design. She has served as reviewer in more than forty journals and program committees, acted as reviewer for EU projects, and is a member of the advisory board of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) and the scientific committee of CPDP. She has organized several workshops including the 8th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), served as program chair of the 16th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS'11), and chair of the PET Award 2011 (Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies).
Privacy models and engineering privacy by design
Abstract:
This lecture will discuss two popular models for addressing privacy in electronic services and applications: "soft privacy" approaches based on trusting service providers, and "hard privacy" approaches based on implementing advanced privacy enhancing technologies. We will provide a broad overview of the state-of-the-art in privacy enhancing technologies, and illustrate with concrete examples how these technologies can be applied to build secure and privacy-preserving applications, including pay-as-you-drive road tolling and electronic petitions. We will finally discuss how these designs can serve as a first step towards developing engineering methodologies and practices for privacy by design.