Peter Fleischer: Privacy...?

  Will it finally go away?  23andMe is filing for bankruptcy. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/nx-s1-5338622/23andme-bankruptcy-genetic-data-p...

  I have been posting to this blog to share my thoughts with a small community of privacy professionals.  So, I was a bit surprised to see B...

  Everyone is in the race for AI, in particular the race for AGI, artificial general intelligence.  AGI was widely viewed as science fiction...

    I’m now free to say what I think.  For many years, I was an official spokesperson on privacy issues, amongst other things, for my prior ...

  I’m mostly bored with Google, but occasionally it publishes a blog that gets me riled up.  When I still worked there, I was proud of my em...

I read a recent Google blog. Updating our platform policies to reflect innovations in the ads ecosystem. I have absolutely no idea wha...

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...