A collection of awesome software, libraries, documents, books, resources and cool stuff about data privacy in cybersecurity. Thanks to all contributors, you're awesome and wouldn't be possible without you! Our goal is to build a categorized community-driven collection of very well-known resources.

As Internet usage has increased over the years, so has the importance of data privacy. Websites, applications, and social media platforms often need to collect and store personal data about users in order to provide services.

Data privacy or information privacy is a branch of data security concerned with the proper handling of data – consent, notice, and regulatory obligations. More specifically, practical data privacy concerns often revolve around:

• Whether or how data is shared with third parties.
• How data is legally collected or stored.
• Regulatory restrictions such as GDPR, HIPAA, GLBA, or CCPA.

• Educational Courses
• Books
• Guides and Checklists
• Tools and Libraries
• Tutorials
• Journals
• Conferences
• Related Awesome Lists
• Subreddits
• Certifications
• Miscellaneous

• PSU - Privacy in Statistical Databases (Fall 2007)
• UPENN - Data Privacy (Fall 2011)
• WUSTL - Data Security
• CMU - Privacy and Anonymity in Data
• Bilkent - Data Privacy (Spring 2016)
• PSU - Algorithmic Challenges in Data Privacy (Spring 2010)
• Weizmann Inst. - Foundations of Privacy (Fall 2015)
• Caltech - Introduction to Data Privacy (Fall 2014)
• Harvard - Mathematical Approaches to Data Privacy (Spring 2013)
• UT Austin - Theory and Practice of Secure Systems (Fall 2009)
• Udemy - Data Security
• UWaterloo - Computer Security and Privacy (Spring 2019)
• University of Vermont - Data Privacy (Fall 2019)
• University of Minnesota - The Algorithmic Foundations of Data Privacy (Fall 2018)
• Columbia - Privacy and Online Social Networks (Spring 2014)
• Georgia Tech - Cybersecurity Lecture Series
• Eindhoven University of Technology - Principles of Data Protection (Fall 2020)

• The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy
• Differential Privacy: A Primer for a Non-technical Audience
• The Complexity of Differential Privacy
• Lectures on Data Security - Modern Cryptology in Theory and Practice
• Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
• The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
• Permanent Record (by Edward Snowden)
• Sandworm (by Andy Greenberg)
• Privacy by Design (by Nishant Bhajaria)

• OWASP User Privacy Protection Cheat Sheet
• Mobile privacy: a better practice guide for mobile app developers
• Securing Personal Information: A Self-Assessment Tool for Organizations
• Reasonable Security Checklist for Personal Information
• Pro Privacy: Encryption for Privacy Guide
• EFF: Surveillance Self-Defense

• Synthetic Data Generation Framework (SGF)

• ARX - Open Source Data Anonymization Software
• UTD Anonymization Toolbox
• Amnesia
• Anonymizer
• Open Anonymizer
• µArgus
• Cornell Anonymization Toolkit
• sdcMicro
• anonymize-it
• Microsoft Presidio - Data protection and anonymization API

• IBM Differential Privacy Library
• Google- Differential Privacy Library
• diffpriv

• Tensorflow Privacy
• IBM Differential Privacy Library

• RAPPOR by Google
• Fair Analytics

• OpenGDPR

Tools related to general privacy can be found in privacy-respecting and awesome-privacy

• Simons Institute - Differential Privacy Tutorial
• Microsoft Research - Differential Privacy (Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• CERIAS Purdue - A Practical Beginners' Guide to Differential Privacy
• USENIX - Differential Privacy: From Theory to Deployment

• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
• IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine
• IEEE Security & Privacy
• ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS)
• International Journal of Information Security and Privacy(IJISP)
• Transactions on Data Privacy
• Computers and Security
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
• Journal of Information Security and Applications
• International Journal of Information Security

• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
• IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy
• Other Security Related Conferences
• Other Privacy Related Conferences

• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity-cryptography
• awesome-appsec
• personal-security-checklist
• awesome-web-security
• privacy-respecting
• awesome-privacy

• r/privacy
• r/security
• r/netsec

• CISSP
• CISM
• Q/ISP

• Privacy Patterns Software engineering design solutions to privacy problems
• Data Protection Laws around the World
  (e.g., Turkey, USA)
• GDPR Tracker GDPR compliance of various cloud services & subprocessors
• Data Processor Agreements A collection of data processor agrements
• Privacy Incidents Database
• The new EU General Data Protection Regulation in Under 60 Minutes!
• Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testimony on data privacy before Senate committee
• Data Privacy for Data Scientists

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