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Privacy has long been considered as a fundamental human right. Emerging technologies such as social media, smart grid, Internet of Things, drones, and self-driving cars have raised heightened privacy issues. Recent developments of regulations such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is also drawing increasing attention from technologists, policymakers, and the media. How to protect people's privacy is a key challenge of our time. This course provides an in-depth look into privacy, privacy laws and regulations, privacy-enhancing technologies and mechanisms, and privacy design. Privacy will be examined from historical, philosophical, cultural, legal, economic, behavioral, and technical perspectives. This course is designed primarily for graduate students who are interested in privacy and are from a wide range of disciplines such as information science, computer science and engineering, law, business, media studies, economics, politics, and psychology. Recommended course background: EN.601.443/643 Security & Privacy or equivalent.