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 KranzlmüllerJan Schmidt and Fabio Genz.

Contents:

The module comprises two courses. The first course Data Ethics is a seminar with introductory talks on technical, legal, and ethical aspects of data security and privacy – especially when dealing with personal data or when planning experiments in data science – as well as students' presentations of their research on individual topics that address these issues.

The second course, Data Ethics and Data Security, covers basic legal and ethical questions and challenges of data security and privacy, and consists of a lecture and a tutorial. The lecture introduces the foundations of data security and privacy as well as methodological and technical solutions in cryptography and data anonymisation. In the tutorial, students learn to apply the contents of the lecture in micro-projects.

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