Peter Swire

Senior Fellow

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Peter P. Swire is a Senior Fellow at American Progress on a part-time basis. He is the C. William O’Neill Professor at the Moritz College of Law of the Ohio State University. From 1999 to early 2001 he served as the Clinton Administration's Chief Counselor for Privacy, in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. In that position, he coordinated administration policy on the use of personal information in the public and private sectors, and served as point of contact with privacy and data protection officials in other countries.

He was White House coordinator for the proposed and final HIPAA medical privacy rules, and chaired a White House Working Group on how to update electronic surveillance laws for the Internet age. He played a leading role on topics including financial privacy, Internet privacy, encryption, public records and privacy, ecommerce policy, and computer security and privacy. With Lawrence Lessig, he is Editor of the Cyberspace Law Abstracts of the Social Science Research Network. Many of his writings appear at www.peterswire.net.

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Swire is a regular commentator on National Public Radio, CNN, C-SPAN and elsewhere.