Peter Fleischer: Privacy...?

  I’m looking forward to seeing lots of old friends at the upcoming Venice https://privacysymposium.org/   For many years, I attended and sp...

  One of the peculiarities of monopolies in the age of Big Tech is how they tend to leverage quickly into a group of monopolies.  Historical...

  How should Europe riposte to the Trump tariff wars? I visited with some friends in Madrid recently. I was surprised how quickly the conse...

  I spent most of my life in woke organizations, namely Harvard and Google.  Both of those institutions have lots in common:  both have very...

  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...