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Privacy-Aware Data and Retrieval Systems

Competency Contract​

  • Primary competency: DM-DATA-001
  • Mastery: explain, apply, develop, and evaluate as required by the semester assessment
  • Status: required evidence extension; it does not add a semester or increase the advertised duration

Required Work​

Design collection, lineage, retention, deletion, and access around purpose; build a streaming or change path; evaluate vector or ranked retrieval separately from downstream generation.

Evidence Contract​

  • data inventory and lineage
  • retention/deletion test
  • stream replay evidence
  • retrieval benchmark and failure analysis.

Assessment Integration​

  • Project: produce the evidence in the semester repository rather than as detached prose.
  • Checkpoint: show the evidence exists and identify its highest-risk gap.
  • Cumulative review: connect the work to current, previous, and two-semesters-back knowledge.
  • Exam: evaluate a new case and reject an attractive but unsafe or unsupported alternative.
  • Rubric: every required evidence category must pass; strengths cannot average away a missing category.
  • Answer key: calibrate the shape of evidence without prescribing one implementation.

Oral Defense​

Trace one record through collection, replication, deletion, and retrieval, including a privacy failure.

AI-Use Declaration​

Record tools and models used, material output accepted, rejected suggestions, and independent verification. Undeclared generated evidence fails the integrity gate.

Reading Route​

Start with the linked semester concepts and labs. Use local books selectively for conceptual depth and current official standards for normative requirements. Stop reading when you can produce and defend the required evidence.