Peter Fleischer: Privacy...?

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

Thursday, June 12, 2025

It’s all about (sharing) the data, stupid: privacy meets antitrust

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I spent time with a group of privacy experts recently.  We were discussing the intersection of privacy and antitrust law.  Traditionally, th...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Debating Privacy in Venice

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  I’m looking forward to seeing lots of old friends at the upcoming Venice https://privacysymposium.org/   For many years, I attended and sp...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

A Gaggle of Monopolies

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  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...
Monday, April 7, 2025

The end of US clouds in Europe?

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  How should Europe riposte to the Trump tariff wars? I visited with some friends in Madrid recently. I was surprised how quickly the conse...
Thursday, April 3, 2025

Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who’s the wokest of them all?

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  I spent most of my life in woke organizations, namely Harvard and Google.  Both of those institutions have lots in common:  both have very...
Friday, March 28, 2025

23andMe, Privacy zombie

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  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...
Monday, March 17, 2025

The AI training bots are reading my 100% human-generated blog…Great?!

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  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...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Big and Rich v Small and Smart, who’ll win the AI race?

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  Everyone is in the race for AI, in particular the race for AGI, artificial general intelligence.  AGI was widely viewed as science fiction...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

The leaning tower of privacy

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    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 ...
Monday, March 3, 2025

Thou shalt not kill, unless thou art an autonomous AI killing machine

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  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...
Monday, February 24, 2025

Surveillance just got a lot creepier

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I read a recent Google blog. Updating our platform policies to reflect innovations in the ads ecosystem. I have absolutely no idea wha...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

I've left Google

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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...
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