Lorrie Cranor is Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission. She joins the FTC from Carnegie Mellon University, where she is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy, and where she directs the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory. Lorrie was previously a researcher at AT&T Labs Research and has also taught at the Stern School of Business at New York University. She has authored over 150 research papers on online privacy and usable security, and has played a central role in establishing the usable privacy and security research community, including her founding of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. She is also a co-director of Carnegie Mellon’s Privacy Engineering masters’ program. Lorrie holds a doctorate in Engineering and Policy, masters’ degrees in Computer Science, and Technology and Human Affairs, and a bachelor’s degree in Engineering and Public Policy, from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Lorrie Cranor joined the Federal Trade Commission as Chief Technologist in January 2016. She is on leave from Carnegie Mellon University where she is a Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy, Director of the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS), and Co-director of the MSIT-Privacy Engineering masters program. She also co-founded Wombat Security Technologies, an information security awareness training company. Cranor has authored over 150 research papers on online privacy and usable security, and has played a central role in establishing the usable privacy and security research community, including her founding of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. She is a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE.

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