Awesome Data Privacy and Security

A curated list of data privacy and security resources

Content

• Courses
• Books
• Guides and Checklists
• Tools and Libraries
• Tutorials
• Journals
• Conferences
• Related Awesome Lists
• Subreddits
• Certifications
• Miscellaneous

Courses

• PSU - Privacy in Statistical Databases (Fall 2007)
• UPENN - Data Privacy (Fall 2011)
• WUSTL - Data Security
• CMU - Privacy and Anonymity in Data
• Bilkent - Data Privacy (Spring 2016)
• PSU - Algorithmic Challenges in Data Privacy (Spring 2010)
• Weizmann Inst. - Foundations of Privacy (Fall 2015)
• Caltech - Introduction to Data Privacy (Fall 2014)
• Harvard - Mathematical Approaches to Data Privacy (Spring 2013)
• UT Austin - Theory and Practice of Secure Systems (Fall 2009)
• Udemy - Data Security
• UWaterloo - Computer Security and Privacy (Spring 2019)
• University of Vermont - Data Privacy (Fall 2019)
• University of Minnesota - The Algorithmic Foundations of Data Privacy (Fall 2018)
• Columbia - Privacy and Online Social Networks (Spring 2014)
• Georgia Tech - Cybersecurity Lecture Series
• Eindhoven University of Technology - Principles of Data Protection (Fall 2020)

Books

• The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy
• Differential Privacy: A Primer for a Non-technical Audience
• The Complexity of Differential Privacy
• Lectures on Data Security - Modern Cryptology in Theory and Practice
• Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
• The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
• Permanent Record (by Edward Snowden)
• Sandworm (by Andy Greenberg)
• Privacy by Design (by Nishant Bhajaria)

Guides and Checklists

• OWASP User Privacy Protection Cheat Sheet
• Mobile privacy: a better practice guide for mobile app developers
• Securing Personal Information: A Self-Assessment Tool for Organizations
• Reasonable Security Checklist for Personal Information
• Pro Privacy: Encryption for Privacy Guide
• EFF: Surveillance Self-Defense

Tools and Libraries

Data Generation

• Synthetic Data Generation Framework (SGF)

Anonymization

• ARX - Open Source Data Anonymization Software
• UTD Anonymization Toolbox
• Amnesia
• Anonymizer
• Open Anonymizer
• µArgus
• Cornell Anonymization Toolkit
• sdcMicro
• anonymize-it
• Microsoft Presidio - Data protection and anonymization API

Differential Privacy

• IBM Differential Privacy Library
• Google- Differential Privacy Library
• diffpriv

Machine Learning

• Tensorflow Privacy
• IBM Differential Privacy Library

Reporting and Analysis

• RAPPOR by Google
• Fair Analytics

GDPR

• OpenGDPR

Tools related to general privacy can be found in privacy-respecting and awesome-privacy

Tutorials

• Simons Institute - Differential Privacy Tutorial
• Microsoft Research - Differential Privacy (Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• CERIAS Purdue - A Practical Beginners' Guide to Differential Privacy
• USENIX - Differential Privacy: From Theory to Deployment

Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
• IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine
• IEEE Security & Privacy
• ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS)
• International Journal of Information Security and Privacy(IJISP)
• Transactions on Data Privacy
• Computers and Security
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
• Journal of Information Security and Applications
• International Journal of Information Security

Conferences

• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
• IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy
• Other Security Related Conferences
• Other Privacy Related Conferences

Related Awesome Lists

• awesome-cryptography
• awesome-appsec
• awesome-security
• personal-security-checklist
• awesome-web-security
• privacy-respecting
• awesome-privacy

Subreddits

• r/privacy
• r/security
• r/netsec

Certifications

• CISSP
• CISM
• Q/ISP

Miscellaneous

• Privacy Patterns Software engineering design solutions to privacy problems
• Data Protection Laws around the World
  (e.g., Turkey, USA)
• GDPR Tracker GDPR compliance of various cloud services & subprocessors
• Data Processor Agreements A collection of data processor agrements
• Privacy Incidents Database
• The new EU General Data Protection Regulation in Under 60 Minutes!
• Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testimony on data privacy before Senate committee
• Data Privacy for Data Scientists