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Carnegie Mellon University computer science and privacy expert Lorrie Cranor and her colleague Hana Habib, Graduate Research Assistant with CMU, explain what the private-browsing tools available with most browsers actually provide users. They clarify: “don’t confuse privacy for anonymity.”

There has been a surge in phishing attacks and online scams taking advantage of COVID-19-related uncertainties and vulnerabilities. Carnegie Mellon University Professor Lorrie Cranor shares insights from her anti-phishing research.

Carnegie Mellon computer science and engineering professor Lorrie Cranor is honored for 20 years of work developing privacy enhancing technologies and building a usable privacy research community.

Lorrie Cranor, the Chief Technologist for the Federal Trade Commission, shares her experience about having her mobile phone account hijacked by an identity thief.

In her role as the Chief Technologist for the FTC, Lorrie Cranor shares information from research studies that suggest regularly changing passwords may not be providing as much protection as people previously thought.

Carnegie Mellon University professor Lorrie Cranor has been appointed as the Federal Trade Commission’s new Chief Technologist.

In a recent Wired article, Professor Lorrie Faith Cranor discusses her work researching online privacy and usable security.

Privacy professors Lorrie Faith Cranor and Alessandro Acquisti, both of Carnegie Mellon University, joined last month’s “pii2013” conference via a live video to discuss their new course in privacy engineering.

TAP scholars with expertise in privacy and Constitutional law share their thoughts on the legal issues of balancing personal privacy with national security given the recent news of government surveillance programs.

Professor Lorrie Faith Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University, discusses the history and value of leveraging Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) for privacy policies.