Peter Swire
Senior Fellow
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.
Major Media Appearances and/or Publications:
Swire is a regular commentator on National Public Radio, CNN, C-SPAN and elsewhere.
Articles by Peter Swire
- The ID Divide, May 6, 2008
- Online Behavioral Advertising: Technical Steps Needed to Ensure Consumer Control, April 10, 2008
- What Happens to Your Information?, February 11, 2008
- Bush’s Budget Repeats Cybersecurity Mistakes, February 4, 2008
- Privacy Key to Yahoo Merger; Microsoft Bid Must Ensure Safeguards, February 1, 2008
- Google and Privacy: Merger with DoubleClick Prompts New Privacy Guidelines, December 20, 2007
- We Are the Web, December 18, 2007
- Protecting Consumers: Privacy Matters in Antitrust Analysis, October 19, 2007
- Better Technology, Better Care, June 19, 2007
- Improper Use of National Security Letters by the FBI, April 11, 2007
- Reining in Warrantless Searches, March 9, 2007
- Funding the FTC, February 26, 2007
- Transparency in Jeopardy, February 20, 2007
- A Question of Impartiality, August 31, 2006
- The Internet and the Future of Consumer Protection, July 24, 2006
- Consumers are King, June 20, 2006
- Is Data Retention Secure?, June 12, 2006
- Oversight Hearing on "Personal Information Acquired by the Government From Information Resellers: Is There Need for Improvement", April 4, 2006
- New Ways to Stop Phishing, March 27, 2006
- Legal FAQs on NSA Wiretaps, January 26, 2006
- Extend the PATRIOT Act to Improve It, December 22, 2005
- Time to Stop Playing Politics with the Patriot Act, December 16, 2005
- Still Not Too Late to Fix Flawed PATRIOT Deal, December 9, 2005
- Justice Department Opinion Undermines Protection of Medical Privacy, June 7, 2005
- The Wrong Civil Liberties Board, September 1, 2004