Peter Fleischer serves as Google’s global privacy counsel, but he may also have had a role in writing the dress code.  At any rate, the man apparently loathes ties – he wrote a letter to the Financial Times saying as much.

Google’s Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer appears to be a master of textual undercurrents (what the reader understands as "between the lines"), responding to Privacy International’s recent condemnation of the company’s privacy policies without mentioning the group itself.

The company’s global privacy counsel had some critical things to say about proposed Swedish wiretapping legislation, but picked a strange example when comparing Sweden to other countries.