CyLab Director Lorrie Cranor (@lorrietweet) works to develop usable privacy tools to inform consumers about how their personal data is collected and shared.
Cranor discusses her team's ongoing research and its impact on empowering technology users.
Cookie banners are annoying but including an X to close results in users having no idea what they are consenting to or not. @ElijahBoumaSims presented our empirical study on banner design elements at #chi2023
Carnegie Mellon will host its Privacy Day 2023 event on Friday, January 27th, from 11 am to 1 pm! Experts will present their research and share practical advice on protecting privacy online. Lunch will be provided, and no registration is necessary.
What are you doing for #DataPrivacyDay 2023? How about submitting your application to join our Fall 2023 class of #PrivacyEngineering masters students @SCSatCMU. Applications are due Jan 28! Please spread the word to those who might be interested. https://t.co/MjIOSgTvwp
🚨new episode of #TechSwamp 🚨 download or stream for a breakdown on #PrivacyNutritionLabels with the APPsolutely amazing @lorrietweet. we're talking gaps these labels are filling, what they mean for the future of standardized privacy notices, and more 💻https://t.co/8HZ26oImUc
Read my latest CACM privacy column that explains my disappointment in iOS and Android privacy/safety labels and how the platforms could make them better
https://t.co/4x3da9fu9o
CyLab researchers conducted a large-scale user study, uncovering the information most important to consumers shopping for broadband internet service & determining the terminology and presentation formats that make this info most understandable and useful.
https://t.co/XHPrdCkH5h
It's time for 🤫privacy 🤫 to be more strongly centered in conversations about improving IoT products. Let's take a look at some of the fundamental principles of IoT device privacy, according to @lorrietweet.
https://t.co/QRiT4FxoWm
Cookie consent banners are supposed to give people more control over their personal data, but in practice they have become an annoyance and generally do little to protect #privacy, writes @CyLab's @LorrieTweet in the @WSJ.
"There's a better way."
https://t.co/mAGKxwDcjn
Congrats to @CyLab's @LorrieTweet, who was awarded an honorary doctorate from @USI_en over the weekend 📜👏
"Lorrie is a role model for all of us on how to do research that not only crosses interdisciplinary boundaries but that also has an impact."
https://t.co/JxH3TWJVEh
Over 50% of @AppStore apps still don't have a #privacy label, & many labels may not accurately reflect apps' actual data practices 😮
But don't blame developers; they face several challenges with @Apple's privacy label tool, new @CyLab research shows 👇
https://t.co/blWQUHywQz
Yesterday, Google unveiled #privacy "nutrition labels" for Android apps. CyLab's @LorrieTweet applauds Google's effort but hopes they dodge some of the pitfalls faced by Apple's labels.
"We need labels that are actually usable and useful for consumers."
https://t.co/tyYEiBEWcp
We read hundreds of usable privacy and security research papers so you don't have to! We focus on methods + risk representation in empirical studies. Spoiler: much less deception than you might think!
See also our appendix w/ list of things to include in your methods section