Peter Swire

Elizabeth and Tommy Holder Chair

Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology

Peter Swire

Elizabeth and Tommy Holder Chair

Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology

Peter Swire has been a leading 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, and Professor in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy. 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 has served on the National Academy of Sciences & Engineering Forum on Cyber Resilience.

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. Under President Obama, he was Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy.

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Contributions

A Discussion on the US-EU Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework

September 9, 2022

In this webinar, experts discuss the efficacy of the new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework.

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Deep Dive Episode 235 – A Discussion on the US-EU Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework

September 9, 2022

In this podcast, experts discuss the efficacy of the new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework.

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Deep Dive Episode 139 – Implications of Data Portability: A Consumer Protection Tool or Burden?

October 19, 2020

An expert panel discusses the consumer protection and privacy implications of data portability.

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