Peter Fleischer: Privacy...?

How do you measure privacy protections? There are many important questions that I ask, including these: What data is collected? Who has a...

How should we handle face recognition software? Every so often a new technology comes along that has the ability to alter fundamentally the ...

In privacy circles, we all try to make sure that people are sensitive about what they post online. I remember a chat I had with a journalis...

We spent a couple days on mountain bikes in Switzerland recently. We got lost a lot. We didn't use GPS or geo-location-apps. We didn...

I had the privilege of sharing a podium in Dublin last week at the Institute of International and European Affairs with the Irish Data Prote...

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...