Master Practicum: Ethically Implementing and Practicing Inverse Transparency – A new form of data privacy (IN2106, IN4277)
Course 0000004570 in SS 2020
General Data
| Course Type | practical training |
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| Semester Weekly Hours | 6 SWS |
| Organisational Unit | Informatics 4 - Chair of Software & Systems Engineering (Prof. Pretschner) |
| Lecturers |
Severin Kacianka Valentin Zieglmeier Responsible/Coordination: Alexander Pretschner |
| Dates |
Tue, 13:00–15:00, virtuell |
Assignment to Modules
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IN2106: Master-Praktikum / Advanced Practical Course
This module is included in the following catalogs:- Further Modules from Other Disciplines
Further Information
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| additional remarks | This practical course puts you in the role of a software engineer in a team that starts to practice Inverse Transparency principles. You start your semester by developing analysis software and generating usage data. We will use this time to improve your software development and teamwork skills. During development, you will ethically deliberate your design and implementation choices. You will have to decide which analyses are meaningful, which might not be sensible, and which should definitely not be used. In the second half, you will utilize the generated data of your peers for analyses. You will assume the role of a software team lead who needs to judge their employees. Again, you will have the opportunity to discuss, which analyses you want or do not want to use for this task. This allows you to experience both sides of the data usage relationship. What is Inverse Transparency? ======================= Employers have significant control over the data of their employees. To protect employees, the workers' councils often completely forbid usage of individual-related data by employers. This is not a perfect solution though. On the one hand, nobody can truly verify that managers adhere to this (more often than not, they probably don't). On the other hand, interesting data usages might be prevented, even if employees are in principle okay with it. Inverse Transparency is a concept that we think can help overcome these hurdles. It is based on a simple principle: All data is accessible, but all data access is transparent and visible to the data owners. This makes misusage unattractive, as it can be retraced. Valuable and interesting data usages on the other hand are enabled in a transparent way. |
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Equivalent Courses (e. g. in other semesters)
| Semester | Title | Lecturers | Dates |
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| SS 2021 | Master Practikum: Implementing and Practicing Inverse Transparency – A new form of data privacy (IN2106, IN4277) |
Schmidt, T.
Zieglmeier, V.
Responsible/Coordination: Pretschner, A. |
Wed, 13:00–15:00, virtuell and singular or moved dates |