Peter Fleischer: Privacy...?

2011 has come and almost gone, and I've already forgotten most of it. It's always been that way. I can barely remember my own life...

I've worked in the field of privacy long enough to remember a time when almost no companies in the world had privacy officers. Now, alm...

A lot of you have wondered about the status of the appeal of my Italian conviction . So, here's a short update, just on some logistica...

September 11, seen 10 years later, changed many things in the world, in geo-political terms. Some people also think it changed the nature o...

I'd like to share some personal musings about an interesting series of court cases pending in Spain, pitting the "right to be forg...

Privacy laws need to ensure that there is a higher level of privacy protection for everyone’s sensitive personal data. There's univers...

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...