‘Most People Value Their Privacy a Lot’
By C.J. Thompson
Lorrie Cranor is a longtime champion of privacy and security issues.
A professor of computer science, engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, she also serves as director of the university’s CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory and is co-director of the MSIT privacy engineering masters’ program.
For more than two decades, Cranor’s research has illuminated usable — consumer-friendly — privacy and security technologies and methodologies.
Cranor, whose doctorate is from Washington University in St. Louis, served as chief technologist for the Federal Trade Commission in 2016.
She and CyLab researchers recently designed the blue “opt-out” icon now used on many websites to alert consumers how to decline the sale of their data. It resulted from amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in March.
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