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Professor Peter Swire, J.D., is an associate director of the Institute for Information Security & Privacy (IISP) at Georgia Tech for the area of policy research. Swire has been a privacy and cyberlaw scholar, government leader, and practitioner since the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s. He came to the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2013, where he is the Elizabeth and Tommy Holder Chair in the Scheller College of Business, with appointments by courtesy with the College of Computing and School of Public Policy. He is senior counsel with the law firm of Alston & Bird LLP.
Swire served as one of five members of President Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology. Prior to that, he was co-chair of the global Do Not Track process for the World Wide Web Consortium. He is a senior fellow with the Future of Privacy Forum, and a policy fellow with the Center for Democracy and Technology. Under President Clinton, Swire was the chief counselor for privacy in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget -- the first person to have U.S. government-wide responsibility for privacy policy. In that role, his activities included being White House coordinator for the HIPAA medical privacy rule, chairing a White House task force on how to update wiretap laws for the Internet age, and helping negotiate the U.S.-E.U. Safe Harbor agreement for trans-border data flows. Under President Obama, he was special assistant to the President for economic policy.
Swire is author of five books and numerous scholarly papers. He has testified often before the Congress, and been quoted regularly in the press. He has served on privacy and security advisory boards for companies including Google, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft, as well as a number of start-ups.
Swire graduated from Princeton University, summa cum laude, and the Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.
Research Highlights
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"Online Privacy and ISPs: ISP Access To Consumer Data Is Limited and Often Less Than Access by Others," Peter Swire, Justin Hemmings, Alana Kirkland. (2016)
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"U.S. Surveillence Law, Safe Harbor, and Reforms Since 2013," Peter Swire. Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business, Research Paper No. #36; (Dec. 18, 2015)
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"Peter Hustinx and Three Clichés About E.U.-U.S. Data Privacy," Data Protection Anno 2014: How to Restore Trust? Contributions in honour of Peter Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor (2004-2014), ISBN 978-1‐78068‐213‐6
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"The Second Wave of Global Privacy Protection: Symposium Introduction," 74 Ohio St. L. J. 841; (2013)
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Finding the Best of the Imperfect Alternatives for Privacy, Health IT, and Cybersecurity, Volume 2013, No. 2, Wisconsin L. Rev., 649; (2013)
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"How to Address Standardless Discretion after Jones'," Erin Murphy & Peter Swire. (2012)
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"A Reasonableness Approach to Searches after the Jones GPS Tracking Case," 64 Stanford L. Rev. Online 57; (2012)
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"Social Networks, Privacy, and Freedom of Association," 90 North Carolina L. Rev. 1371; (2012)
- "From Real-Time Intercepts to Stored Records: Why Encryption Drives the Government to Seek Access to the Cloud," International Data Privacy Law; doi: 10.1093/idpl/ips025; (2012)
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"Managing Changing Compliance Requirements by Predicting Regulatory Evolution: An Adaptability Framework," Jeremy C. Maxwell, Annie I. Antón, Peter Swire. 20th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Chicago; (2012)
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"Encryption and Globalization," Peter Swire & Kenesa Ahmad; 13 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 416 (2012)
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"A Legal Cross-References Taxonomy for Identifying Conflicting Software Requirements," Jeremy Maxwell, Annie I. Antón, Peter Swire, Maria Riaz & Christopher McCraw. Requirements Engineering Journal, Springer-Verlag; (2012)
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"A Legal Cross-References Taxonomy for Reasoning about Compliance Requirements," Jeremy Maxwell, Annie I. Antón, & Peter Swire. 19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Awarded “Distinguished Paper” for the conference, Trento, Italy; (2011)