Peter Fleischer: Privacy...?

This is a place for me to ruminate about Privacy. For two decades, I worked as Google's Global Privacy Counsel.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The Italian Supreme Court has acquitted me !

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An eight-year legal saga has now come to an end.   Yesterday, in Rome, the Italian Supreme Court (Cassazione) acquitted me, as well as tw...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

The Splinternet, from a pool in Istanbul

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Look, I'm a swimmer, and here I'm swimming in the gorgeous pool in Istanbul at the Ciragan at sunset on the Bosphorus.  Things a...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

To talk, or not to talk, that is the question

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I sat down at lunch with three of the biggest corporate guns in the field of privacy.  We're all old friends, and more than a little...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, They hacked my phone, I don't know why

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Why was it candy to hack the Handy of the world's most powerful woman?  Did she park her Porsche in a public place without locking it...
Friday, October 25, 2013

My Mom and Dad trust each other

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Imagine if your mom and dad didn't trust each other. Imagine if they spied on each other, and hired private investigators, and tapped...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Jeff Koons' Private Parts

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I was invited to a fancy charity dinner in Paris, and was treated to a delicious feast of suave irony.  It's not every day that I sip...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Two farmers and a donkey

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Two farmers owned fields that lie side by side.  They don't like each other, and they never have.  But fate has put their fields next ...
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Dear Diary

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Dear Diary, You're the only one I can talk to.  You're the only place where I can share my secret fears.  I feel safe, becau...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

Lovely, lovely, let's not change a thing

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While I was on St Bart's, a lovely French island where plutocrats play, I had a chance to chat with the image-savvy CEO of a major ...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

From Warsaw to Mauritius

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I'm just back from a privacy commissioners' conference in Warsaw.  I detected a theme of privacy-war-weariness there.  It's t...
Friday, August 23, 2013

Saying Nyet to the Russian Homophobolympics

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As a gay-athlete, and oh yes, also privacy professional, I've decided not to set foot in Russia, as a personal protest against Ru...
Friday, August 2, 2013

How to feign outrage over PRISM

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Around the world, politicians are under pressure to express their outrage over US government surveillance.  It's August, and your PR ...
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Monday, July 29, 2013

Russia ratifies Privacy Rights...but not for Gays

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Modern privacy law was invented over a century ago in the United States, was re-discovered in post-war-Europe, and is now spreading aroun...
Monday, July 15, 2013

We need global privacy standards...now more than ever

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As a reaction to the recent spate of government surveillance revelations, this week the Chancellor of Germany and others have issued calls ...
Friday, July 12, 2013

You can run, but you can't hide

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Government surveillance is running amock, worldwide.  This is the sort of topic that Obama and I might have debated, when we were both id...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Life in the Goldfish Bowl: Privacy in the Age of Government Surveillance

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As each day goes by, there are new revelations of the scope and scale of government surveillance.  I had long known or suspected that all...
Friday, June 28, 2013

It Gets Better

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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...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the ugliest one of them all?

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Many years ago, a  legal journal  called me a man on a "crusade" to protect users' privacy against government surveillance. ...
Thursday, May 2, 2013

My favorite holiday photos, and a trillion others

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