Lorrie Cranor
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"Lorrie Faith Cranor" is the director of the CUPS (CMU)/Carnegie Mellon Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors. She is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Engineering and Public Policy Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously she was a researcher at AT&T Labs/AT&T 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.

Cranor was a member of the first class to graduate from the Mathematics, Science, and Computer Science Magnet Program at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, MD. She received a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and Public Policy, Master's Degrees in Technology and Human Affairs, an M.S. in Computer Science, and a Doctorate in Engineering and Policy from Washington University in St. Louis.

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These serious companies putting out P3P products definitely says to me that [P3P] is real.

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Any system we could build today that would come close to the needed level of security for a national election would be very hard for an average person to use, ... We couldn't use standard browsers, and we would need a way to authenticate users, like passwords or encryption keys.

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Right now, consumers have to hunt for privacy documents, and that can sometimes be scary when they see all they will have to read and sort through. Hopefully this will be a way they can see easily how a site matches their personal preferences.

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At the interoperability session, we will be showing a browser helper object that works with Microsoft Explorer as a plug-in.

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P3P is fairly easy for sites to deploy, ... Sites can go ahead and deploy P3P right now based on the May 10 revisions [to the specification], and hopefully there will not be many changes.

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