Peter Swire is the Elizabeth and Tommy Holder Chair of Law and Ethics at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business, a Senior Counsel to Alston & Bird LLP, and Research Director of the Cross-Border Data Forum. He served as one of five members of President Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology.
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The American Data Privacy and Protection Act would provide numerous substantive privacy protections that are long overdue.
Nascent OECD work to identify principles on government access to data for law enforcement and national security purposes can have important normative significance but also faces political hurdles.
On Aug. 25, the U.K. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) released important details about its post-Brexit strategy for cross-border flows of personal data. What's in the release?
We propose a solution to fix the perceived defects in U.S. surveillance law identified recently by the EU’s judicial branch.
The CJEU invalidated one principal legal method for the transfer of personal data from EU territory to the United States and cast substantial doubt on the validity of the other. What are the consequences of the ruling?
In this moment of true national emergency, how does the public know whether new surveillance programs are necessary?
The advocate general’s opinion details some important new jurisprudence about how the EU may look at foreign intelligence surveillance in the future.