1. Lorrie Faith Cranor is an American academic who is the FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies of Carnegie Mellon Cylab, and director of the Carnegie Mellon Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory.
Lorrie Cranor has served as Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission, and she was formerly a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors.
Lorrie Cranor has authored over 110 research papers on online privacy, phishing and semantic attacks, spam, electronic voting, anonymous publishing, usable access control, and other topics.
Lorrie Cranor 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.
At CMU, Lorrie Cranor's research has largely focused on privacy policies and passwords.
Lorrie Cranor is not only a leading researcher but a tough critic of the online ad industry's privacy initiatives.
Lorrie Cranor said in a report that online privacy policies take users an average of 10 minutes to read.
Lorrie Cranor led the development of the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project at the World Wide Web Consortium and authored the book Web Privacy with P3P.
Lorrie Cranor led the development of the Privacy Bird P3P user agent and the Privacy Finder P3P search engine.
Lorrie Cranor has played a key role in building the usable privacy and security research community, having co-edited the book Security and Usability and founded the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security.
Lorrie Cranor is a co-founder of Wombat Security Technologies, Inc and has authored over 150 research papers on online privacy, usable security, and other topics.
Lorrie Cranor is a member of the feminist collective Deep Lab.
Lorrie Cranor is married to Chuck Lorrie Cranor, a fellow researcher at Carnegie Mellon University.