Privacy Engineering Essentials
Date: To be advised
Course Overview
The digital economy runs on data. These days, individuals are sharing more and more of their personal data with various organisations. Yet, it is not uncommon that we have seen cases of data breaches or misuse of the personal data that violate privacy and causing harms to individuals. Privacy engineering is an emerging discipline which aims to ensure that privacy frameworks, methodologies and techniques are used to embed privacy into products and systems.
This module is part of Professional Certificate in Cybersecurity and Privacy Engineering.
Learning Outcomes
In this course, participants will learn the essence of privacy engineering with a multi-disciplinary perspective, from law and technology to usability and business. Participants will gain practical knowledge of privacy engineering principles and frameworks. They will learn the principles of privacy, data protection laws, privacy-by-design approach, privacy risk models, techniques in privacy designs and dark patterns, privacy enhancing technologies (PET), and privacy challenges from technologies development from surveillance to Internet of Things (IoT) to Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Who Should Attend
Data Scientists, Developers, Data Protection Officers, Compliance Managers, Product Managers and Technology Lawyers.
Prerequisites
Diploma with some basic knowledge of information technology.
Course Convener
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Mr Wong Kar Hong

Mr Wong Kar Hong
Wong Kar Hong has 30 years of experience in Information Technology (IT) with specialized knowledge in Data Protection and Governance, Hospitality Technology and Geographic Information System. He was a National Computer Board (NCB) scholar and started his career with NCB. He has extensive working experience in China where he held various IT positions with Ericsson China, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) China and Giti Tire China. He is currently the founder and chief consulting officer at Young Technology Consulting Pte Ltd, a company that specializes in data privacy and protection. Kar Hong has a MSc in Bioinformatics, NTU and a MSc in Management of Technology, NUS. He studied computer science, economics, and mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) and has a Practitioner Certificate in PDPA (Singapore). He was adjunct lecturer at various educational institutions. He taught at NUS Chinese-MBA program, EMBA at Yongsei University in Seoul, IHG GM Academy, SIT and Temasek Polytechnic.
Course Fees
Total Nett Programme Fee Payable, Including GST, after additional funding from the various funding schemes
Participants must fulfill at least 75% attendance and pass all assessment components to be eligible for SSG funding.
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Course Code:
TGS-2022013132 (Classroom Learning)
TGS-2022013129 (Synchronous e-learning)
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Course Fee Breakdown
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