Privacy Engineering COMP3444 26T3
Notices
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Week 4 Lecture and Recording
Posted by Rahat Masood Sunday 04 October 2026, 06:10:26 PM.
Hi Everyone,
As tomorrow (Monday) is a public holiday, I have uploaded the Week 4 lecture materials and lecture recording for you to access online.
Please let us know if you have any trouble accessing the materials. If there are any topics from the lecture that you find unclear or would like further explanation on, we can discuss them in our next class.
Enjoy the public holiday!
Regards,
Rahat -
Capture the Narrative 2026 is now open
Posted by Rahat Masood Wednesday 30 September 2026, 08:50:30 AM.
Hi All,
Capture the Narrative 2026 is now open! - https://capturethenarrative.com
Ready to compete in an AI-powered battle for influence? 📣🤖
Capture the Narrative is a free online competition where teams build and program autonomous social-media accounts to compete for influence inside a simulated nation.
Instead of fighting on a game board, your bots operate in a fictional social network and news environment populated by thousands of AI-powered citizens. Create content, react to unfolding events, develop strategies and compete against other teams to shape the story.
About
Teams interact with the simulation through a web API, programming agents that can post, reply and engage with the simulated population. Throughout the competition, the world evolves through news stories and events, while a live scoreboard shows how effectively each team is influencing different groups.
No machine-learning experience is required — if you can write code and call an API, you can compete.
Why enter?
- 🤖 Build autonomous AI/social-media agents
- 🧠 Experiment with influence, misinformation and information integrity
- 🌐 Compete inside a large-scale simulated social network
- 👥 Enter with a team of friends
- 💰 Free to enter; win cash prizes - first place $5,000; second place $2,500; third place(s) $1,500.
Simulate & Spot Misinfo.
Registration, rules and starter resources are available now:
https://capturethenarrative.com
Competition runs 19 Oct - 2 Nov 2026.
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Audio Recording Issue with Lecture 2 in Week 1
Posted by Salil Kanhere Wednesday 16 September 2026, 12:08:12 PM.
The Echo360 System did not record the lecture audio for the second lecture (Tuesday @ 11 am) in Week 1 in Ainsworth 102. I called IT Support, and it became apparent that the lectures before and after ours had the same issues. They said they would check and fix the issue today.
As a replacement, I have added a version of the slides with detailed speaking notes. I hope this suffices. Please reach out to us if you have specific questions about any of the content.
We are sorry about this.