April Privacy Working Group Meeting
April 2nd, 2012
Social Networks, Privacy, and Freedom of Association
Data Empowerment versus Data Protection
Speaker
Peter Swire, Ohio State University
Thursday, April 26, 2012
12:00 – 1:30pm
Lunch will be provided
The Privacy Working Group invites you to participate in a discussion about Peter Swire’s recent paper, which examines how freedom of association affects how privacy can be regulated on social networks.
Peter P. Swire is the C. William O’Neill Professor of Law at the Moritz College of Law of the Ohio State University. He is a fellow with the Center for American Progress and Center for Democracy and Technology and heads a program on government access to personal information for the Future of Privacy Forum.
In 2009-2010 Professor Swire was Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, serving in the National Economic Council under Lawrence Summers.
From 1999 to early 2001 Professor Swire served as the Clinton Administration’s Chief Counselor for Privacy, in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the only person to date to have government-wide responsibility for privacy issues. In that role, he was the White House coordinator for the proposed and final HIPAA medical privacy rules and chaired a White House task force on how to update wiretap laws for the Internet age. He also participated in the negotiation of the Safe Harbor agreement for trans-border data flows between the EU and the United States.
This year the International Association of Privacy Professionals will publish his book “Foundations of Information Privacy and Data Protection: A Survey of Global Concepts, Laws, and Practices,” the principle text for the IAPP Certification Foundation program.
Many of his writings appear at www.peterswire.net.
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