Media Appearances | Peter Swire

“IP Rights and AI Regulation: Finding the Right Balance,”

PatentlyO, Nov. 9, 2024.
“The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 8: Privacy Over Party: Peter Swire,”

JDSupra, Oct. 28, 2024.
“Will Processing CTI Become Legally Risky?”

Studio 471, Oct. 22, 2024.
“Untapping the Full Potential of CLOUD Act Agreements,”

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), Jun. 6, 2024.
“Your Opportunities are Limitless: Message from a 2024 Cyber Graduate,”

Georgia Tech College of Computing, May 1, 2024.
“The Lawfare Podcast: Devin DeBacker and Lee Licata on the Biden Administration’s New Executive Order on Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data,”

Lawfare, Mar. 13, 2024.
“Article: Executive Order to Limit Sales of American’s Sensitive Data to Adversarial Foreign Governments,”

Alston & Bird Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Blog, Feb. 29, 2024.
“Lawfare Article: Limiting Data Broker Sales in the Name of U.S. National Security: Questions on Substance and Messaging,”

Georgia Tech School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, Feb. 28, 2024.
“U.S. Executive Order Will Address Brokers’ Sensitive Data Transfers to ‘Countries of Concern,’”

IAPP, Feb. 28, 2024.
“Georgia Today: Update for Savannah Man Charged with Insurrection; ‘Right Turn on Red’; Paper Ballots,”

GPB, Feb. 20, 2024.
“PCLOB Report Further Divides FISA Section 702 Reauthorization Talks,”

IAPP, Sep. 28, 2023.
“EU-US Adequacy Decision Finalized,”

IAPP, Jul. 13, 2023.
“European Commission Publishes FAQ on EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and Other Updates,”

IAPP, Jul. 11, 2023.
“Meta’s $1.3 Billion Privacy Fine Propels U.S.-EU Data Plan,”

Bloomberg Law. May 23, 2023.
“Intelligence Leaks Case Spotlight on a Recurring Insider Threat: Tech Support,”

The Wall Street Journal, Apr. 20, 2023.
“This Privacy Tech Startup Wants to Crack the Code on … Code,”

AdExchanger, Mar. 15, 2023.
“Notes from the IAPP Europe, 3 March 2023,”

IAPP, Mar. 2, 2023.
“Denison University Hosts Talk with Privacy Rights Expert,”

Newark Advocate, Feb. 23, 2023.
“Peter Swire, Global Data Privacy Pioneer, Joins Privya’s Advisory Board”

Privya, Nov. 30, 2022.
“Swire to Continue Defining the Field of Cybersecurity as J.Z. Liang Chair”

Georgia Tech College of Computing, Nov. 29, 2022.
“Cyber Student Receives $16,000 and Year-Long Mentorship,”

Georgia Tech News Center, Nov. 29, 2022.
“Biden Signs EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework”

Technique, Nov. 6, 2022.
“The Biden Administration’s SIGINT Executive Order, Part II: Redress for Unlawful Surveillance”

JustSecurity, Nov. 4, 2022.
“The Latest on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework”

IAPP, Oct. 13, 2022.
“Legal Questions Loom Over Latest Trans-Atlantic Data Flows Deal”

Bloomberg Law, Oct. 11, 2022.
“White House Executive Order Brings EU-U.S. Data Flow Deal Closer to Finish Line”

IAPP, Oct. 7, 2022
“The New Transatlantic Data Deal: Will it Stick or End Up as Lipstick on a Pig?”

CEPA, Oct. 7, 2022
“U.S. Expected to Publish Privacy Shield Executive Order Next Week”

Politico, Sep. 27, 2022
“Our Survey Experts: It’s Okay to Expose the Government”

The Washington Post, Sep. 20, 2022
“Social Media Vulnerability – Interview with Peter Swire”

Joshua Johnson Now, NBC News Now, Sept. 15, 2022.
Preemption of State Cybersecurity Laws: It’s Complicated

Lawfare, Aug. 24, 2022.
What Privacy Rights Exist When It Comes to Illegal Abortions?

ABC News, Aug. 14, 2022.
Why Experts Have Hope in the Federal Privacy Bill – Even if it Doesn’t Pass

The Record, Aug. 9, 2022.
Missouri Governor Criticized a Newspaper for Exposing a Data Security Flaw

Bolly Inside, Apr. 6, 2022.
U.S.-EU Data Privacy Deal Faces Key Questions on Surveillance

The Wall Street Journal, Mar. 28, 2022.
EU, U.S. Agree ‘In Principle’ to New Trans-Atlantic Data Agreement

IAPP, Mar. 25, 2022.
Digital Bridge: Ukraine Policymaking – New Antitrust Era – Disinfo Hunters

Politico, Mar. 24, 2022.
U.S. Eyes Breakthrough on Data Dispute with EU as Biden Visits Brussels

Politico, Mar. 24, 2022.
Notes from a CSIS Virtual Event: Cybersecurity Considerations for Data Localization Regulation

Strategic Technologies Blog, CSIS, Mar. 22, 2022.
Jackson Michigan to Install License Plate-Reading Cameras. Are You OK with Them?

WBCK FM, March 16, 2022.
Spying Complaint Plan Eyed by EU, US in Data Transfer Talks

Bloomberg Law, Mar. 11, 2022.
Digital Bridge: Russia’s Online Propaganda War – Meta Lobbying Targets – Google vs Apple on Privacy

Politico, Feb. 24, 2022.
Digital Bridge: Privacy Shield Update 3.0 – Semiconductor Subsidies – EU-US Policy Spat

Politico, Feb. 3, 2022.
Digital Bridge: France’s Digital Presidency – January 6 Anniversary – Amazon’s Covid Problems

Politico, Jan. 6, 2022.
DC Council Unanimously Passes Law Allowing Residents to Opt for Digital Driver’s License

Fox 5 (Washington, DC), Dec. 8, 2021.
Updated cybercrime pact aims to speed cross-border investigations

The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 25, 2021.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson slams paper after it reveals state data security flaw

Mercury News, Oct. 14, 2021.
Reckoning with cyberpolicy contradictions in great power politics

Brookings, Oct. 12, 2021.
Trans-Atlantic Data Flows: What’s next after the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield?

Brookings, Jul. 23, 2021.
This Week in Washington IP: Senate set to confirm Cunningham; Restoring American leadership in patent law; and Supporting cybersecurity by stopping ransomware

IP WatchDog, Jul. 19, 2021.
Surveillance in spotlight amid ongoing EU-U.S. data privacy rift

Bloomberg Law, July 16, 2021.
How Europe’s top court hobbled global data flows

Politico, July 15, 2021.
Analysis: Cybersecurity 202: Here’s what cybersecurity experts think Biden should prioritize in his first 100 days

The Washington Post, Feb. 1, 2021.
Column: Pandemic, not privacy, tops list of 2021 consumer trends. Let’s change that

The Los Angeles Times, Jan. 22, 2021.
Tim Berners-Lee: He created the Web. Now he is out remake the digital world.

The New York Times, Jan. 10, 2021.
Lessons from a Privacy Shield post-mortem on Capitol Hill

Atlantic Council, Dec. 15, 2020.
Schrems II and individual redress – Where there’s a will, there’s a way

Lawfare, Oct. 12, 2020.
Schrems II offers and opportunity – If the U.S. wants to take it

Lawfare, Jul. 28, 2020.
Privacy Shield revocation greatly complicates international data transfers; Is a grace period in the works?

CPO Magazine, Jul. 27, 2020.
Georgia Tech Scheller faculty push back against reopening plans

Poets & Quants, Jul. 6, 2020.
‘No extra soap’: Georgia inmates say prisons not ready for COVID-19

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Mar. 19, 2020.
Meet the new neighborhood watch: License-plate reading cameras

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Aug. 9, 2019.
Security, surveillance and the truth about ‘Going Dark’

Forbes, Jul. 25, 2019.
Lose the chalk, Officer: Court finds marking tires of parked cars unconstitutional

The New York Times, Apr. 25, 2019.
Highlights from the AEI’s event on data privacy

AEI, Apr. 10, 2019.
Zuckerberg’s call for data portability highlights security risks

Bloomberg Law, Apr. 1, 2019.
RPT–FBI’s secret method of unlocking iPhone may never reach Apple

Zloto News, July 2, 2018.
ARA Study Shows How E-Delivery Would Benefit DC Plan Participants

PlanAdviser, June 25, 2018.
Appeals court rules FTC sanction for Atlanta’s defunct LabMD too vague

MyAJC.com, Jun. 7, 2018.
The CLOUD Act: law enforcer or global privacy threat?

Financier Worldwide, May 22, 2018.
Peter Swire named a 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

Carnegie Corporation of New York, Apr. 25, 2018.

(April 25, 2018) Peter Swire has been named a 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellow to study “Protecting Human Rights and National Security in the New Era of Data Nationalism.” The new project, with $200,000 in research funding, builds on the successful “Cross-Border Requests for Data Project,” whose main recommendations were incorporated into the CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data), enacted in 2018.
The joys of data hygiene: Europe’s tough new data-protection law

The Economist, Apr. 5, 2018.
How the Government Could Fix Facebook

The Atlantic, Apr. 5, 2018 (co-published by ProPublica).
Should foreign police be able to search for evidence in US cloud data?

The Boston Globe, Mar. 25, 2018.
Your email privacy will get a boost thanks to the omnibus spending bill (and that’s a good thing)

Fox News, Mar. 23, 2018.
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Lawfare, Feb. 10, 2018.
The Future of Healthcare Could Be a Privacy Nightmare

Tonic, Vice, Feb. 8, 2018.
Companies race to gather a newly prized currency: Our body measurements

The Washington Post, Jan. 16, 2018.
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: ID Theft Protectors Want to Scare the Money from Your Wallet

Ad Age, Jan. 9, 2018.
The Year in Review: FISA Section 702

Lawfare, Dec. 27, 2017.
Public Opinion Often Sets Privacy Standards for Smart City Tech

Government Technology, Dec. 18, 2017.
Google’s Privacy Practices Are A Matter Of Public Concern

BloombergQuint, Dec. 9, 2017.
E-commerce tracking practices raise privacy questions

MoneyWatch, CBS, Dec. 8, 2017.
What Is Google Doing With Your Personal Data?

BloombergQuint, Dec. 8, 2017.
Atlantans Protest Pending Repeal Of Net Neutrality

WABE Atlanta, Dec. 7, 2017.
FBI Unable To Unlock Texas Gunman’s Phone, Reviving Debate Over Privacy And Security

Here and Now, National Public Radio, Nov. 9, 2017.
Household products being used for surveillance cameras threaten public safety

Fox 5 D.C., Nov. 6, 2017.
USPS ‘Informed Delivery’ Is Stalker’s Dream

Krebs on Security, Oct. 2, 2017.
Credit agency Experian says it can protect you from the ‘dark Web’ — sort of

Los Angeles Times, Sept. 22, 2017.
Your broadband provider can use your smart devices to spy on you

New Scientist, Aug. 28, 2017.
Vote Fraud Crusader J. Christian Adams Sparks Outrage

NBC News, Aug. 27, 2017.
Who Is Marcus Hutchins?: Security Researcher Community Worried?

International Business Times, Aug. 4, 2017.
The DoNotPay Dilemma: Can Chatbots Provide Access to Justice Without a Lawyer?

Law.com, Jul. 17, 2017.
Google takes 2 steps to protect user privacy

Los Angeles Times, Jun. 25, 2017.
The reasons you can’t be anonymous anymore

BBC, May 29, 2017.
Is your child’s toy spying on you?

WSB-TV Atlanta, May 15, 2017.
A Bipartisan Approach to Cyber

Georgia Tech News Center, May 2, 2017.
Amazon’s ‘Echo Look’ Could Snoop a Lot More Than Just Your Clothes

Wired, Apr. 28, 2017.
Latest Uber controversy sheds light on how companies use your emails

CBS, Apr. 25, 2017.
Cross-Border Requests for Data Requests and Mutual Legal Assistance

Georgia Tech Institute for Information Security & Privacy, Apr. 18, 2017.

Peter Swire leads the Georgia Tech Research Project on Cross-Border Requests for Data, with support from the Hewlett Foundation Cyber Project and others.
What the House internet privacy bill means for you

CNN, Apr. 1, 2017.
“Congress let Internet providers ‘spy on’ your underwear purchases, advocacy group says”

Politifact, Mar. 30, 2017.
Wikileaks release notwithstanding, the CIA isn’t hacking — or helping — you

USA Today, Mar. 7, 2017.
The secret world of vulnerability hunters

The Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 10, 2017.
US data safeguards equivalent to EU rules, Facebook court told

The Irish Times, Feb. 9, 2017
Company seeking drivers to use accident notification app

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan. 22, 2017.
Institute for Information Security and Privacy

Georgia Tech, Policy page, Dec. 22, 2016.
Net Politics Podcast: Peter Swire

The Council on Foreign Relations, Net Politics podcast with Karen Kornbluh, Dec. 8, 2016.
The Trump Effect on Privacy Shield ‘There’s a great deal that’s unknown’

The International Association of Privacy Professionals, The Privacy Advisor with David Meyer, Nov. 15, 2016.
“Government Surveillance and Privacy Concerns”

The Constitution Project, C-SPAN, Oct. 14, 2016 (with Rajesh De, Sharon Franklin, Neema Guliani, Jake Laperruque, David Lieber, Rebecca Richards, and Virginia Sloan).
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Peter Swire

The International Association of Privacy Professionals, The Privacy Advisor Podcast, Sep. 30, 2016.
“The FCC and Privacy: A Conversation with the Hon. Peter Swire,”

California Technology Council, California Technology Council Podcast, May 27, 2016.
Tech Ethics: How Should Apple Balance Privacy and National Security?

National Public Radio, Here & Now with Robin Young, Feb. 17, 2016.
Privacy in EU and US: A Debate Between Max Schrems and Peter Swire

Brussels Privacy Hub, Jan. 26, 2016.
“‘Going Dark’ and the Intersection of Law Enforcement and Privacy Interests,”

The Federalist Society, Criminal Law & Procedure Practice Group Podcast, Sep. 30, 2015 (with Benjamin Wittes).
The Half-life of Secrets, A Golden Age of Surveillance, and the US Military’s Starship Enterprise,

The Cybersecurity Podcast, New America, Aug. 19, 2015.
Provider of Personal Finance Tools Tracks Bank Cards, Sells Data to Investors,

Wall Street Journal, Aug. 6, 2015.
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #76: An Interview with Peter Swire and Annie Anton,

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Jul. 21, 2015.
Professor Peter Swire // Encryption // Privacy,

The Dr. Katherine Albrecht Show, Jul. 21, 2015.
Can the government get special encryption access while preserving privacy?,

PBS Newshour, July 8, 2015.
Privacy Czar Peter Swire Recognized with the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ 2015 Privacy Leadership Award,

Washington, DC (March 6, 2015).

Washington, DC (March 6, 2015) – The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), among its over 20,000 members, honored Peter Swire, an expert on privacy and cyber security and a professor of law, with the 2015 Privacy Leadership Award. Swire was recognized for his continued commitment to the privacy field in tackling emerging privacy and security issues in public policy, academia and industry.
TEACHING PRIVACY AND CYBERSECURITY

Swire teaches “Privacy Technology, Policy, and Law” (with Prof. Antón) and “Information Security Strategies and Policy.” Swire published a framework (2018) for teaching the non-code aspects of cybersecurity.
Along with his continued full-time position at Georgia Tech, under Institute rules Swire is senior counsel at Alston & Bird LLP, in the Privacy & Data Security Practice.

Along with his continued full-time position at Georgia Tech, under Institute rules Swire is senior counsel at Alston & Bird LLP, in the Privacy & Data Security Practice.
Letter from Review Group members supporting USA Freedom Act

On November 14, the five members of the Review Group sent a letter to the Senate supporting the NSA reform bill.

The vote in the Senate is on Tuesday, November 18!
Since it was founded in 2018, Peter Swire has been Research Director of the Cross-Border Data Forum. Support to create the CBDF came from funding Swire received as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow to study “Protecting Human Rights and National Security in the New Era of Data Nationalism.” The work of the CBDF builds on the successful Georgia Tech “Cross-Border Requests for Data Project,” whose main recommendations were incorporated into the U.S. CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data), enacted in 2018.

Since it was founded in 2018, Peter Swire has been Research Director of the Cross-Border Data Forum. Support to create the CBDF came from funding Swire received as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow to study “Protecting Human Rights and National Security in the New Era of Data Nationalism.” The work of the CBDF builds on the successful Georgia Tech “Cross-Border Requests for Data Project,” whose main recommendations were incorporated into the U.S. CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data), enacted in 2018.

“Tracking People on the Internet?” OSU Interview, Dec. 2, 2010

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2007

“HIPAA Privacy Enforcement,” Wall Street Journal, Jan. 3, 2007

“Spying on the Home Front,” PBS Frontline, May 15, 2007

2006

“First Amendment and Web Searches,” New York Times, Jan. 19, 2006

“Record Fine for Data Breach,” Washington Post, Jan. 27, 2006

“Personal Information Becomes Post-9/11 Target,” Kai Ryssdal, NPR, Marketplace, Sep. 8, 2006

“Cell Phone vs. Privacy,” NPR, Talk of the Nation, Dec. 4, 2006

2005

“ChoicePoint Security Breach May Affect More Than 140,000,” NPR, All Things Considered, Feb. 21, 2005.

“The Real ID Act Raises Privacy Issues,” NPR, Morning Edition, May 6, 2005

“Critiquing Justice Department Opinion on Medical Privacy Enforcement,” Associated Press, Jun. 7, 2005

“National Security Letters and the PATRIOT Act,” Washington Post, Nov. 4, 2005

2004

“The Persuaders: Interview with Professor Swire,” PBS Frontline, Jun. 1, 2004

“Digital Music and Downloads,” USA Today, Jul. 16, 2004

“Privacy Officers take up Official Posts,” NPR Radio Interview, Dec. 13, 2004

2003

“Healthcare or Hypocrisy,” Justice Talking, Dec. 9, 2003