Peter Fleischer: Privacy...?

The Working Party is a group of representatives from every European country’s data protection authority plus the European Commission, dedica...

I recently posted a blog to explain why Google retains search server logs for 18 months before anonymizing them. http://googleblog.blogspot....

Here's an OpEd I contributed to the Financial Times. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/560c6a06-0a63-11dc-93ae-000b5df10621.html Published: May 2...

All democratic governments need to maintain a delicate balance between 1) respect for the private lives of their citizens, and 2) police and...

Here's a short 0pinion piece that I contributed to this month's edition of .net magazine: http://www.netmag.co.uk/zine/latest-issue/...

It used to be said that “pour vivre heureux, vivons cachés.” If only life were still that simple. But today all of us regularly trust othe...

Google’s plan to acquire DoubleClick has refocused attention on the privacy issues in online ad targeting. Let’s be frank: in privacy term...

LE MONDE 05.04.07 On a coutume de dire "pour vivre heureux, vivons cachés". Si la vie était aussi simple... Aujourd'hui, nou...

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?” ...