Peter Fleischer: Privacy...?

My nearly 2 decades at Google as its Global Privacy Counsel has ended.  I’ve left Google as one of the last few remaining members of the ori...

The older I get, the more I think back to Harvard with nostalgia.  I was very young at Harvard.  I went to college straight out of the 10...

I love my pools.     In Paris, my pool is in a fancy private club, in the Bois de Boulogne, on the edge of Paris.  It's a gor...

I'd like to crowd-source the plot for a science fiction novel.  Would this make a good story?: In a not-too-distant future, say 2...

Czar Vladimir is not your average oligarch who can blow 50 billion to throw himself a party.  But even that much money can't buy you ...

Looking back at 2013, I saw two big surprises that dominated discussions in the field of privacy.  Privacy is all about the individua...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

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