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.
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Lorrie Faith Cranor
Lorrie Faith Cranor is the director for the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University. She’s based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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