The module aims to equip students to become specialists in understanding the issues around privacy in computer systems and on-line services; aware of the best available techniques for mitigating important privacy threats through appropriate security and cryptography controls, namely the use of private communications, private authentication and private computations; and able to securely implement those techniques, as well as familiar with the process of building secure systems.

- Tutor: Aydin Abadi
- Tutor: Steven Murdoch
- Tutor: Dan Ristea
- Course Administrator: Liz Awad
- Course Administrator: Naieema Miah
- Course Administrator: Martin Nolan
- Course Administrator: Ozzy Oluabara
- Course Administrator: Donna Pile-Grant
- Course Administrator: Edith Tai