Peter Fleischer: Privacy...?

There is a new buzz these days in privacy circles: the idea of global standards seems to be gaining momentum.  On January 12, privacy commis...

The financial crisis has everyone talking about global financial regulation. Why didn’t regulations work? And how can regulation be refor...

There was a short report in the BBC today which struck me, my highlights in red :   " The federal archive in Berlin has for the first t...

Lots of people in Europe are trying to figure out how to reduce bureaucracy and red tape.  Let's face it:  we Europeans face some of the...

I think privacy professionals need to get out more. I mean, talk to real people, average consumers, normal Internet users. Most of us priv...

I think it's really important to contribute to robust public debates about online privacy issues. And I think it's really important...

There is a public debate about whether IP addresses should be considered to be “personally-identifiable data” (to use the US phrase) or “per...

A group called One World Trust sent a survey to Google. A lot of people ask us to fill out surveys. I’m not sure who at Google they sent it ...

As the European Commission and the US Federal Trade Commission review Google’s proposed acquisition of DoubleClick, a number of academics, p...

I recently posted a blog on Google’s Lat Long Blog about Street View and privacy. http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/09/street-view-a...

For much of history, people lived in small communities, where everyone knew them, and they knew everyone. Identity was largely inherited an...

Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, added his voice to the debate on global privacy standards with this OpEd, published in a number of outlets a...

Introduction How should we update privacy concepts for the Information Age? The total amount of data in the world is exploding, and data fl...

In the era of the soundbite and the tabloid headline, it's almost startling to be invited to talk on radio about privacy at Google for ...

A lot of Internet services take IP-based geolocation into account. In other words, they look at a user's IP address to try to guess the...

What’s the best way to communicate information about privacy to consumers? Virtually all companies do this in writing, via privacy policies...

Some of you might be interested in German law on data protection officers. I’m going to give this to you in factual terms. [This isn’t lega...

A company that signs up to comply with the provisions of the Safe Harbor Agreement for the transfer of personal data from Europe to the US m...