Peter Fleischer: Privacy...?

When Europe introduced a Data Retention Directive in 2006, it struck a very very careful political and legal balance between the interests ...

I was lucky enough to spend a few days in Switzerland working on Street View . And I treated myself to a weekend of skiing too. The weathe...

A decade ago, European policymakers debated the level of consent required for data protection purposes when a website uses a cookie. Common...

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...