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Lorrie cranor online security and privacy
Lorrie Faith Cranor, Ph.D. is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Engineering and Public Policy Department at Carnegie Mellon University and is the director of the Carnegie Mellon Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory. She is currently the Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission, and she was formerly a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors. Previously she was a researcher at AT&T Labs-Research and taught in the Stern School of Business at New York University. She has authored over 110 research papers on online privacy, phishing and semantic attacks, spam, electronic voting, anonymous publishing, usable access control, and other topics.
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- Lorrie cranor online security and privacy
- Cylab seminar series lorrie cranor 15 years of privacy notice and choice
- Early life and education
- Marriage and children
- Career
- Honors and awards
- References

Cylab seminar series lorrie cranor 15 years of privacy notice and choice
Early life and education

Cranor was a member of the first class to graduate from the Mathematics, Science, and Computer Science Magnet Program at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. She received a bachelor's degree in Engineering and Public Policy, master's degrees in Technology and Human Affairs, and Computer Science, and a doctorate in Engineering and Policy, all from Washington University in St. Louis.
Marriage and children

Cranor is married to Chuck Cranor, a fellow security researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. They have three children together:

Career

Cranor led the development of the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) Project at the World Wide Web Consortium and authored the book Web Privacy with P3P. She also led the development of the Privacy Bird P3P user agent and the Privacy Finder P3P search engine.
Cranor has played a key role in building the usable privacy and security research community, having co-edited the book Security and Usability (O'Reilly 2005) and founded the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS).
She is a member of the feminist collective Deep Lab.
Honors and awards
In 2003, she was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
In 2013, Cranor's Security Blanket won Honorable Mention in the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge presented by Science and the National Science Foundation. She gave a TEDx talk in March 2014 entitled, "What's Wrong with your pa$$w0rd."
In 2014, she was elected to ACM Fellow For contributions to research and education in usable privacy and security.
In 2016, was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
In 2017, she was elected to the CHI Academy. At the same conference, Cranor was awarded a prestigious Best Paper award for her paper titled Design and Evaluation of a Data-Driven Password Meter.