Peter Fleischer: Privacy...?

If there's anything I've learned in this half-century adventure of life, it's that being gay is no private matter.  In this h...

Many years ago, a  legal journal  called me a man on a "crusade" to protect users' privacy against government surveillance. ...

The two-centuries-long evolution of photography has constantly pushed the boundaries of privacy.  At each stage of its evolution, pho...

In December of last year, an Italian Court of Appeals overturned my conviction—as well as that of two other Googlers—for violating Italian ...

When I was on Rhodes recently, I marveled at how virtually every building was designed with one principle in mind:  security.  What'...

The global trends in privacy are crystal clear:  more privacy laws, more litigation, more regulation, more compliance obligations, more...

Why can't Johnny read a privacy policy?  It's because privacy policies aren't being written for Johnny to read.  They'r...

Ask yourself why a European privacy regulator can propagate the preposterous view publicly that the US has " no effective privacy...

Just before Christmas, an Italian Appeals Court  over-turned the convictions  of three Googlers, including myself, for allegedly viola...

Re-read Don Quixote as you follow the debate about revising Europe's privacy laws. Is it more noble to pursue the glory of fantasy ...

I'm in Florida for a few days, joining the Privacy Law Salon, and a chance to talk about privacy with a lot of experts in the field. B...

It's always a good idea, from time to time, to search on your own name.  When I searched on my own name, here's what Bing sugges...

Microsoft has very large operations all over Europe, in particular in Dublin, London and Paris.  So, it came as a bit of a surprise to me...

Finally, after 6 years of criminal prosecutions and appeals, my colleagues and I have been acquitted of a “privacy crime” in Italy .   Thi...

January 28 is Privacy Day .   I love the privacy profession.  Privacy Day is a good day to reflect a bit, and January is the time for n...

My Google colleagues David Drummond, George De Los Reyes (now retired) and myself were convicted in Milan, Italy in 2010 for violating Ita...

Most of us store a lot of stuff in the cloud.  For example, most of us keep lots of old emails in the cloud, since storage is free, the...

We're so much more enlightened than prior Book Burning Generations, aren't we?  Book burning has a long and inglorious histor...