SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A year after her husband died, a mother of three in Utah self-published a children's book that she said helped her sons cope with the sudden loss.

Lorrie Cranor influenced what you know about digital privacy. Now she's aiming for preschoolers. The Carnegie Mellon University professor helped pioneer an internet misery benchmark in 2008 that tallied the 244 hours a year it would require for an American to read online privacy policies in their entirety.

Lorrie Cranor influenced what you know about digital privacy.