Career
Previously she was a researcher at American Telephone & Telegraph Company Labs-Research and taught in the Stern School of Business at New York University. She has authored over 100 research papers on online privacy, phishing and semantic attacks, spam, electronic voting, anonymous publishing, usable access control, and other topics. She received a bachelor"s degree in Engineering and Public Policy, Master"s Degrees in Technology and Human Affairs, an Master of Surgery in Computer Science, and a Doctorate in Engineering and Policy from Washington University in Saint Louis.
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). In 2003, she was named to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
She gave a TEDx talk in March 2014 entitled, "What"s Wrong with your pa$$w0rd."
Lorrie Faith Cranor was elected to Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow Foreign contributions to research and education in usable privacy and security.
