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About Peter Swire

Peter Swire is senior counsel with Alston & Bird's Privacy & Data Security Team. He has been a leading privacy and cyberlaw government official, academic and practitioner since the rise of the Internet in the 1990s.

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White Paper on Privacy Issues in Proposed New National Medical Claims Database

September 30, 2019 By Peter Swire

Prof. Peter Swire, Elizabeth and Thomas Holder Chair at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business and Senior Counsel at Alston & Bird, has published a new white paper on “Possible Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Breach issues in the Proposed National Medical Claims Database Under Section 303 of S. 1895.” Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray […]

Filed Under: Health Privacy Tagged With: Health Information Security, HIPAA, Senate

The CLOUD Act and its Impact on Cross-Border Access to the Contents of Communications

March 25, 2018 By Peter Swire

On Friday morning, March 23, President Trump signed the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill into law, including the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act, and in doing so established a sea change in the rules for cross-border government access to the contents of electronic communications. The CLOUD Act consists of three core components: […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, International, Legislation, Microsoft Ireland Tagged With: CLOUD Act, Cross-border

What Will Trump’s Executive Order Do to U.S. Privacy Law and EU-U.S. Data Transfers?

February 2, 2017 By Peter Swire

On the third day of his presidency, President Trump signed an immigration-related executive order raising significant questions about the future of U.S. privacy law and EU-U.S. data transfers.  The order, titled “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States” (“Executive Order”), directs agencies to “ensure that their privacy policies exclude persons who are […]

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