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Lorrie Faith Cranor

Office: CIC 2207
Phone: 412-268-7534
Email: lorrie AT cs DOT cmu DOT edu
Secretary: Jennifer Lucas, 412-268-9870

Associate Research Professor, Institute for Software Research, International and Engineering and Public Policy

Online privacy issues, privacy enhancing technology, usability of privacy and security software, technology policy, social impact of computers.

B.S. (Engineering and Public Policy) 1992, Washington University in St. Louis
M.S. (Technology and Human Affairs) 1993, Washington University in St. Louis
M.S. (Computer Science) 1996, Washington University in St. Louis
D.Sc. (Engineering and Policy) 1996, Washington University in St. Louis

Carnegie Mellon, 2003 -.

Professor Cranor's research has focused on a variety of areas where technology and policy issues interact, including online privacy, electronic voting, and spam. She is interested in applications of the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P ), and in user interfaces and usability issues related to privacy enhancing software and secure systems. She is chair of the P3P Specification Working Group at the World Wide Web Consortium and author of the book Web Privacy with P3P (O'Reilly 2002). In 2003 she was named one of the top 100 innovators 35 or younger by Technology Review magazine. Before joining the faculty of CMU, Professor Cranor spent seven years as a researcher at AT&T Labs. More information about her research is available at: http://lorrie.cranor.org/

Representative publications:

M. Waldman, A.D. Rubin, and L.F. Cranor. The Architecture of Robust Publishing Systems. (November 2001). ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 1(2):199-230.

S. Byers, L. Cranor, E. Cronin, D. Kormann, and P. McDaniel. Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in the Movie Production and Distribution Process. Proceedings of the 2003 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management, October 27, 2003, Washington, DC.

S. Byers, L.F. Cranor, and D. Kormann. Automated Analysis of P3P-Enabled Web Sites. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC2003). Pittsburgh, PA, October 1-3, 2003, p. 326-338.

L.F. Cranor, M. Arjula, and P. Guduru. Use of a P3P User Agent by Early Adopters. Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, November 21, 2002, Washington, DC.

M.S. Ackerman, L.F. Cranor, and J. Reagle. Privacy in E-Commerce: Examining User Scenarios and Privacy Preferences. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'99), 3-5 November 1999, Denver, Colorado, p. 1-8.


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