Lorrie Cranor

Lorrie Faith Cranor is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and the department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. She is director of the CMU Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS). She has served on a number of advisory boards, including the FTC Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security, and on the editorial boards of several journals. She has testified as an expert in lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of Internet "harmful to minors" laws. In 2003 she was named one of the top 100 innovators 35 or younger by Technology Review magazine. She was previously a researcher at AT&T-Labs Research and taught in the Stern School of Business at New York University.