Peter Fleischer: Privacy...?

The European Data Protection Directive divides the countries of the world into two lists: the white list (with “adequate” data protection) ...

Yes, the rich are different. They can afford to spend millions in fees and years in regulatory process, all in the hope that their “binding...

Wernher von Braun was not speaking about the paperwork of European data protection filings, but he might as well have been. Having worked f...

There’s a lot of hope that Privacy Enhancing Technologies (called PETs) will restore the privacy that technology took away. When you speak ...

The Article 29 Working Party issued a blunt Opinion in March 2006 about data retention: “The decision to retain communication data for the p...

As Dan Quayle put it: “I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.” It’s a flatte...

Henry David Thoreau was prescient again, when he wrote: “You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.” We’re all doing that now, even...

If you think the international mechanisms for cross-border law enforcement requests for information are clear, you’d be wrong. The Internet...

The news have reported cases recently where Western military have raided terrorist lairs and found satellite images of sensitive sites from ...

Since the AOL incident, there has been a lot of discussion in privacy circles about the storage of search string data. The discussions gene...

When Gmail was launched in April 2004, there was an outcry among privacy advocates that its model of email scanning for advertisement purpos...

I worked with other privacy professionals in the European Privacy Officers Forum to answer the question: “Are IP addresses Personal Data?” ...

It’s time to update European data protection, and I’ve got three concrete suggestions. The problem is not with the basic principles of data ...

I'm a fan of Privacy Laws & Business. They publish a terrific International Newsletter. http://www.privacylaws.com/newsletters.inte...

Governments are becoming increasingly data-hungry. Largely because of concerns about terrorism, government agencies are seeking to collect ...

Privacy and data protection have always been a big thing in Europe and in the US. In Europe, the experience of Nazism and communist dictato...

At my last count, 34 US States have laws that require some kinds of security breaches to be notified to the public when their personal infor...

Many people wonder what will happen to their data when European governments begin to pass laws implementing the Data Retention Directive. Go...

There is a lot of confusion about anonymity on the internet, and what it means. In Europe, data protection law governs the process of perso...

The free flow of data around the globe is the lifeblood of the Information Age. And any company doing business on the Internet is participa...