Peter Fleischer: Privacy...?

I'm back from another few days in Berlin. As usual, I met some political leaders to talk about privacy. I also took a personal side tr...

Given the nature of the Internet, all web services are inherently global. All companies doing business on the Internet rely on the collectio...

This is my personal blog, and I try hard to keep my Google work-life out of it. I try to resist the temptation to turn this into a running...

One of the most provocative things a privacy geek can say is "data minimization is dying". Data minimization has been one of the ...

How would you resolve the conflict between the cultural imperative to archive human knowledge and the privacy imperative to delete some of i...

There are hundreds of billions of photos and videos online now. As a matter of common sense and common courtesy, users should not upload p...

In theory, privacy audits are a sensible and useful thing. Regardless of whether they're conducted internally or externally, they can p...

I'm delighted to see a new Chairman , Jacob Kohnstamm, assume the helm at the Working Party , which is the group of all of Europe's ...

With the proliferation of Internet platforms for user-generated content, people are increasingly seeing examples where one person's righ...

I'm thinking about Italy a lot these days. Many of you have expressed your support, and I'm gratified by your concern and your soli...

Google has already reacted to today's astonishing verdict in Milan. I'd like to add a few personal words. I will vigorously appeal ...

I've been thinking about the conundrum of trying to fit all of the words data into two random black-and-white categories: "persona...

A year ago, in the early phases of thinking about how or whether to suggest revisions to the European Data Protection Directive, the Europea...

Despite some inaccurate press, the revised text of the ePrivacy directive does not require an opt-in for cookies. However, the text of the r...

I'm always amazed how many photos I find on the Web, of friends, family or myself, that none of us knew were there. Because things on t...

There are many people in Europe who would rather eat their “chapeau” than admit that non-European countries like the United States might hav...

Since I’m based in France, I’ve recently been appointed as Google’s “Correspondant” for data protection with the French Data Protection Auth...

I recently got away for a few days to play tennis in Florida. I left with a clear conscience, thinking that 2009 was a good year at Google ...