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Feb. 24, 2012
Weaving Around Web Privacy Controls
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| Web browser manufactures often market their products to consumers with an emphasis on privacy, assuring users that their products can better control how personal information is used online. Carnegie Mellon privacy researcher Lorrie Cranor explains that many companies have developed quiet ways to step around some of that privacy-protecting code. |
Produced by Charles Bergquist, Director and Contributing Producer
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Lorrie Faith Cranor
Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering & Public Policy
Director, CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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