Dr. Lorrie Cranor began her career in privacy 25 years ago and has been a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the School of Computer Science for 19 years. Today, she serves as director and professor for the CMU privacy engineering program.

In this episode, Dr. Cranor discusses how she started her career in privacy and then eventually moved into academics. She talks about the history of the CMU privacy engineering program, what the program entails as a student, and the career opportunities available to graduates.

Dr. Cranor's area of research focuses on the usability of privacy and privacy decision making. She discusses several recent studies looking at how real world users understand and navigate cookie consent popups and design best practices for companies. She also explains privacy labels and how developers building applications on iOS and Android can do a better job creating these labels.

We also discuss the future of privacy education and technologies, touching on the responsibilities of companies and privacy-enhancing technologies like differential privacy.

Topics:

• How did you get interested in security and privacy and start working in this field?

Resources:

• CMU's Privacy Program

Related episode:

• Data Protocol’s Privacy Engineering Certificate Course with Jake Ward