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Graph Algorithms and Machine Learning

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Design of Electric Motors, Generators, and Drive Systems

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What is Encryption?

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Threats to Encryption

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History of Encryption Practices

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Advocacy for Encryption

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Encryption Certificate

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  • Describe encryption concepts at a high level, and the benefits encryption offers to us individually and as a society.
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Internet Governance

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Introductions to Online Privacy

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  • Privacy helps reinforce user trust of online services, yet online privacy is under constant pressure of being undermined
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  • Promoting strong, technology-neutral data privacy laws, privacy-by-design principles, and ethical data collection and handling principles is a key approach to protecting and fostering online privacy
  • Privacy helps reinforce user trust of online services, yet online privacy is under constant pressure of being undermined
  • Privacy is an important right and an essential enabler of an individual’s autonomy, dignity, and freedom of expression. Yet, there is no universally agreed definition of privacy
  • Promoting strong, technology-neutral data privacy laws, privacy-by-design principles, and ethical data collection and handling principles is a key approach to protecting and fostering online privacy
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What is a Digital Footprint?

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  • Digital footprints are the records and traces we leave behind us as we use the Internet, every time we use the Internet
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  • Digital footprints are the records and traces we leave behind us as we use the Internet, every time we use the Internet
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  • Your digital footprints are bigger than you may have thought, and they are being used - usually for commercial purposes, but sometimes for other reasons - to track you, customize for you, and market to you
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Protecting Online Privacy Through Ethical Data Collection  

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  • Personal data has monetary and strategic value to others that may not be aligned with an individual’s interests.
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  • Ethical privacy frameworks incorporate, among other things, the concepts of fairness, transparency, participation, accountability, and legitimacy in the collection and handling of data.
  • Personal data has monetary and strategic value to others that may not be aligned with an individual’s interests.
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  • Ethical privacy frameworks incorporate, among other things, the concepts of fairness, transparency, participation, accountability, and legitimacy in the collection and handling of data.
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Individual Privacy Rights: It’s Complicated 

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  • The Internet spans national borders, yet privacy and data protection laws are based on national sovereignty.
  • Provisions are needed to protect personal data that leaves one country and enters another to ensure the continuity of data protection for users.
  • Information about you may be shared with others without your knowledge or consent. It may happen because of something you do or something someone else does.
  • The Internet spans national borders, yet privacy and data protection laws are based on national sovereignty.
  • Provisions are needed to protect personal data that leaves one country and enters another to ensure the continuity of data protection for users.
  • Information about you may be shared with others without your knowledge or consent. It may happen because of something you do or something someone else does.
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