Peter Fleischer: Privacy...?

This is a place for me to ruminate about Privacy. For two decades, I worked as Google's Global Privacy Counsel.

Monday, February 2, 2026

The polar bears committing to protect baby seals

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Everyone wants to protect kids online.  Recently, Australia passed a ban on social media use by under-16’s.  France is in the process of d...
Monday, January 5, 2026

Santa’s Naughty and Nice list for privacy 2025

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Santa has been an early adopter of large-scale data mining and AI predictive algorithms to compile this year’s list of Naughty and Nice.  A ...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

How the One Stop Shop Flop undermined Europe’s grand privacy law

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I believe in privacy, and I believe in the need for privacy laws to guarantee privacy.  I’ve been calling for serious global privacy laws fo...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Data centers coming to a town near you

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  You may think of your personal data as a digital asset, but it does have a physical home.  It exists in a data center (or multiple data ce...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

Taking the Humans out of Human Resources

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We all know the trend:  AI is replacing human workers.  We all know that trend is accelerating.  One of the industries where AI is replacing...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Worried about AI? Don’t worry, it will cure cancer

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You have surely read the dire predictions of the leaders of the field of AI:  everyone from the leaders of OpenAI, Anthropics, Bill Gates, e...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

The Age of Discovery, seen from Seville

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I enjoyed a week in enchanting, intriguing Seville.  The photo is the tomb of Christopher Columbus in the Seville Cathedral. In the Age of ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

The world’s largest surveillance system…hiding in plain sight

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  The world’s largest surveillance system is watching you.  It’s capturing (almost) everything you do on the web on (almost) every website. ...
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