About the IAPP

Peter Swire, CIPP/US

Georgia Tech School of Cybersecurity and Privacy

Chair of Law & Ethics

Peter Swire is the Elizabeth and Tommy Holder Chair of Law and Ethics, in the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business. He is senior counsel with the law firm of Alston & Bird LLP.

Swire is Research Director of the Cross-Border Data Forum, and directs the Georgia Tech Cross-Border Access to Data Project. He served as one of five members of President Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications 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.

Contributions by Peter Swire

• Government Access to Data: Convergence for the EU and US Approaches?
  Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
• The redress mechanism in the Privacy Shield successor: On the independence and effective powers of the DPRC
  The Privacy Advisor
• Global Approaches to International Data Flows
  Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2022
• New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers
  Privacy Perspectives
• Privacy Protections for Government Requests Across Borders: EU and Globally
  Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2021
• Creating Privacy Protections for Government Requests Across Borders
  Web Conference Speaker
• New urgency about data localization with Portuguese decision
  Privacy Perspectives
• Hard data localization may be coming to the EU — Here are 5 concerns
  Privacy Perspectives
• 'Schrems II' backs the European legal regime into a corner — How can it get out?
  Privacy Perspectives
• Privacy in the COVID-19 Era – A Conversation with Peter Swire
  Speaker at IAPP Summit Sessions 2020 Online
• Moderator at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2020 - Canceled
• Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2020 - Canceled
• A proposal to help resolve federal privacy preemption
  Privacy Perspectives
• E-Evidence and the Globalisation of Criminal Evidence
  Moderator at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2019
• Privacy Challenges in the Globalization of Criminal Evidence
  Speaker at Global Privacy Summit 2019
• US federal privacy preemption part 2: Examining preemption proposals
  United States Government
• US federal privacy preemption part 1: History of federal preemption of stricter state laws
  Privacy Tracker
• U.S. Private-Sector Privacy, Second Edition
  Author
• Foundations of Information Privacy and Data Protection
  Author
• Announcing the new Cross-Border Data Forum
  The Privacy Advisor
• The globalization of criminal evidence
  Privacy Tracker