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Peter Swire

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Academic Areas: Law and Ethics

Functional Areas: Business Analytics

Office: CODA

Biography

Peter Swire has been a leading privacy and cyberlaw scholar, government leader, and practitioner since the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s. Swire came to the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2013, where he is the J.Z. Liang Chair in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, in the Georgia Tech College of Computing and Professor of Law and Ethics in the Scheller College of Business. He is Senior Counsel with Alston & Bird, LLP and Research Director of the Cross-Border Data Forum.

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.

Education

J.D., Yale Law School (1985); ABD, Program of Doctor of Civil Laws (Law and Political Theory).
Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, including at the Institute of European Studies (1981)
B.A. (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs (1980).

Teaching Interests

Professor Swire has taught a range of courses on privacy and cybersecurity, for both undergraduate and graduate students. Other courses at Georgia Tech have included Introduction to Business Law, and Computing and Society. As a law professor, before coming to Georgia Tech, Professor Swire’s broad interests were reflected in his teaching at least 17 different courses.

Research Interests

Professor Swire’s research focuses on privacy and cybersecurity, with a particular focus on the governance of cross-border data flows. He is the lead author of the textbook to be certified as a U.S. privacy professional, now in its fourth edition.

Journal Editorial Roles

Co-Editor, Cyberspace Law Abstracts of the Social Science Research Network
Contributing Editor, Lawfare

In Scheller News

2022

The New EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework: Peter Swire’s Impact on a Trans-Atlantic Data Agreement Decades in the Making

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2018

Scheller College Professor Peter Swire Discusses Hartsfield-Jackson Airport Biometrics with WABE

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Year	Title	Journal	Author(s)	Type
2026	“Personal Data as a Dual-Use Technology: Critically Assessing the New Alliance of Privacy and National Security,”	Virginia Journal of International Law	Peter Swire Samm Sacks	Published Papers
Peter Swire & Samm Sacks, “Personal Data as a Dual-Use Technology: Critically Assessing the New Alliance of Privacy and National Security,” Virginia Journal of International Law (2026).
2025	“The Risks to Cybersecurity from Data Localization — Organizational Effects,”	8 Arizona Law Journal of Emerging Technology 3	Peter Swire DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo	Published Papers
Peter Swire & DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo, “The Risks to Cybersecurity from Data Localization — Organizational Effects,” 8 Arizona Law Journal of Emerging Technology 3 (2025).
2024	U.S. Private Sector Privacy: Law and Practice for Information Privacy Professionals,	4th edition (International Association of Privacy Professionals,	Peter Swire DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo	Published Papers
Peter Swire & DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo, U.S. Private Sector Privacy: Law and Practice for Information Privacy Professionals, 4th edition (International Association of Privacy Professionals, 2024).
2024	“Risks to cybersecurity from data localization, organized by techniques, tactics and procedures,”	Journal of Cyber Policy, 9:1, 20-51	5. Peter Swire DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo Drew Bagley Sven Krasser Avani Modak Christoph Bausewein	Published Papers
Peter Swire, DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo, Drew Bagley, Sven Krasser, Avani Modak & Christoph Bausewein, “Risks to cybersecurity from data localization, organized by techniques, tactics and procedures,” Journal of Cyber Policy, 9:1, 20-51 (2024).
2024	Legal Issues in Reconciling Data Protection, AI, and Cybersecurity under EU Law,”	89 Missouri Law Review 871	Iain Nash DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo Peter Swire Annie Antón	Published Papers
Iain Nash, DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo, Peter Swire & Annie Antón, “Legal Issues in Reconciling Data Protection, AI, and Cybersecurity under EU Law,” 89 Missouri Law Review 871 (2024).

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