The module Data Ethics and Data Security is part of the MSc Data Science program at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich. The course will be lead by Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller, Jan Schmidt and Fabio Genz.

Contents: The module Data Ethics and Data Security covers basic legal and ethical questions and challenges of data security. The module comprises two courses. This course looks into methodological questions of data anonymisation and technical aspects of data security. Students are introduced to the technical, legal, and ethical issues of data security, especially when dealing with personal data or when planning experiments in Data Science.

Objective: Students will reflect on standard procedures and problems of data protection and learn technical methods to handle data responsibly.