COS - In the News, 2010

Lorrie Cranor was quoted in KDKA article "FTC Considers ‘Do Not Track’ List For Internet Users" which can be read here.
Lorrie Cranor was quoted in Post-Gazette article "Rule targets computer privacy: FTC report recommends 'Do Not Track' tool on Internet" which can be read here.

Kathleen M. Carley - "U.S. 'Connects The Dots' To Catch Roadside Bombers" on NPR. Download the audio here.
Lorrie Cranor was quoted in Edge article "Manhunt Policy Change Raises Questions Anew About Internet Privacy" which can be read here.
Lorrie Cranor was quoted in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article "Posting gripes about job a risky practice" which can be read here.

Lorrie Cranor was quoted in NPR article "Facebook Flap Highlights Growing Privacy Concerns" which can be read here.
Lorrie Cranor was quoted in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article "Internet anonymity at risk as real costs of free speech weighed" which can be read here.

Kathleen M. Carley - "Country analyses have great potential in peacekeeping and counterinsurgency operations ... " in Mining Social Networks: Untanglig the Social Web - The Economist
Lorrie Cranor was quoted in New York Times article "A Loophole Big Enough for a Cookie to Fit Through" which can be read here.

Kathleen M. Carley - International Mathematics could be anti-terror tool United Press International | July 13 "The area has exploded, in terms of the types of techniques and technologies," says computer scientist Kathleen Carley of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "There are huge, rapid advances in this area with, of course, some very interesting challenges," she says. Other researchers are seeking simple mathematical formulas that could describe the optimal arrangement of a secret terrorist cell and provide clues on how to destroy it. "If you have a mathematical model that can describe the structure of a terror network -- and the model works -- then you can predict the future," says Alexander Gutfraind, a mathematician at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. [Link]

CASOS hosts the 10th annual CASOS Summer Institute June 7-13, 2010. Over the past decade over 400 individuals from academia, government, industry, the military and foreign scholars have been trained in the science of networks - how to extract networks from texts, how to analyze social, communication, activity, semantic and other networks, and how to simulation change and adaptation in these networks.

The CMU led MURI team, with members from RIC (Richard Lobban), ECU (Tracy van Holt and Jeffrey Johnson) and CMU (Kathleen M. Carley, Jana Diesner) are highlighted as the opening panel at the 2010 Sudan Studies Association meeting. The meeting will be held at Purdue University on May 28-30. Results from this ONR sponsored MURI will appear in the first session. Conference agenda is here.
COS and CASOS Alum Ian McCulloh uses CASOS tools, including ORA, to Assess Counter-Insurgents. [Link]
Lorrie Cranor was quoted in Pittsburgh Business Times article "Cyber security may depend on getting employees on board with best practices" which can be read here.

Lorrie Cranor was interviewed by Andrew Stockey from Pittsburgh Channel 4 News. The article "Protect Yourself With Facebook Privacy Settings" can be read here.
Lorrie Cranor was quoted in Wall Street Journal article "As Location-Sharing Services Grow, Privacy Concerns Do Too" which can be read here.
Lorrie Cranor was quoted in ReadWriteWeb article "Location Privacy Goes to Washington" which can be read here.

Lorrie Cranor was quoted in The New York Times article "Redrawing the Route to Online Privacy" which can be read here.
Lorrie Cranor was quoted in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article "Web scams up; ID thefts in W.Pa. below average" which can be read here.
Lorrie Cranor was quoted in Compliance Management News article "Congress hears testimony on location-based services and online privacy" which can be read here.
Lorrie Cranor was quoted in Post-Gazette article "Experts warn: Be careful opening those electronic greetings" which can be read here.
Three Carnegie Mellon University research projects were awarded $2 million from the inaugural Google Focused Research Awards. School of Computer Science professors Lorrie Cranor and Norman Sadeh were awarded $400,000 to lead a project that will study how people can protect their privacy online. You can read the Pittsburgh Business Times article "CMU lands three Google research grants" here.
Lorrie Cranor was awarded a Google Focused Research Award in the category of Privacy. The Cnet article "Google gives millions of dollars in research awards" can be viewed here.
Lorrie Cranor was quoted in Cnet article "Mozilla weighs privacy warnings for Web pages" which can be viewed here.
Lorrie Cranor was quoted in The New York Times article "Google Puts New Focus on Outside Research" which can be viewed here.

Dr. Lorrie Cranor to give keynote at Financial Cryptography and Data Security Meeting '10, January 25-28, 2010. The Financial Cryptography and Data Security Meeting '10 website is located here
Lorrie Cranor was quoted in Cnet article "It's been 10 years: Why won't people pay for privacy?" which can be viewed here.
Lorrie Cranor was quoted in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article "Staying connected a status (update) symbol" which can be viewed here.