Peter Fleischer: Privacy...?

I was relaxing with a glass of chianti watching The Bourne Ultimatum on tv. The shadowy authorities use surveillance technologies to try to...

I've spent a few days in Berlin, and I've spoken with many interesting politicians and journalists about privacy. The most interest...

Here’s an interesting article about the day-to-day challenges and contradictions of national laws in the context of the global Internet (ok,...

Like most Americans, I woke this morning to one of my favorite days of the year, Thanksgiving. Unlike most Americans, I also woke this mor...

As you can imagine, I've spent a lot of time researching European law on hosting platforms. International legislation recognizes that ho...

Today in Milan, the Milan Public Prosecutors’ Office will make their closing arguments why 4 Google employees including me should be held pe...

I won't be attending my trial in Milan in person. I'll be represented by outside counsel. I believe that each of my 3 co-defendant...

I'm relieved that the Google "privacy" trial in Italy is finally underway. This week, the Milan Public Prosecutor will make h...

First, thanks to a bunch of you for sending me notes, encouraging me to keep blogging. I will. I recently joined a group of privacy expert...

I've been taking a break from blogging. In case you wonder why, it's because I was rattled to see an Italian public prosecutor scou...

Cloud Computing has become one of the more influential tech trends of our day. The Cloud is roughly analogous to remote computing, where com...

I did a little OpEd in the French paper Liberation on Google's Street View and privacy. Only fair, I guess, to put a picture of my own ...

Lead Data Protection Authority:  how EU data protection regulation can catch up with other areas of European law Being a global company mean...

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...