Information & Ethics committee  The short answer is no. The long answer is that it's going to take more time than we have to explain, but I'd be happy to meet with you to describe in more depth how Buzz works, what it is, and what the concern is. But the short answer is no, Canadians' personal information is not at risk.

Information & Ethics committee  That's not correct. What happened was that every Gmail user was given the opportunity to join this additional service, which was built into Gmail, but it was not obligatory that people sign up for it.

Information & Ethics committee  That's right. There were a number of interstitials that users had to go through in order to get access to Google Buzz and start using it. But different users didn't like that sign-up process, in any event—which we changed.

Information & Ethics committee  We have a significant portion of the country mapped. The way to see it is by going to Google Maps and finding the little “peg man”, as we call him. I don't make up these names; I just repeat them at committee. You drag “peg man” over the map and all of the places that are covered in Street View will light up as blue.

Information & Ethics committee  That's a great question. Thank you. The short answer to your question is that there's no particular timeline, but with your indulgence, I have an interesting anecdote for you that provides a bit of colour to this. During the last collection of data we photographed the city of Windsor, unfortunately, during their garbage strike.

Information & Ethics committee  Ah, ah!

Information & Ethics committee  So when I--

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not 100% sure.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  If I'm instructed by a parliamentary committee to do something, then I'm going to do it, I guess. I will consult with our external lawyers on this, because there could be all sorts of reasons why we may or may not be able to disclose it. But I understand the point you're making.

Information & Ethics committee  Understood.

Information & Ethics committee  The third one was increased privacy training for all engineering staff. It's also for staff throughout the company, but in particular for engineers. If it's interesting for the committee, I've already had some preliminary discussions and my colleagues have had some preliminary discussions with some of the provincial privacy commissioners here in Canada who are interested in coming to Google and speaking to our engineers.

Information & Ethics committee  I gave you a curt answer; I apologize. I can go into a bit more detail about Google Buzz. The best way to describe it is kind of taking the functionality of Twitter, public updates—or private updates for that matter—and integrating that into Gmail. The way that was launched provided some very negative feedback from our users and resulted in lawsuits.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't feel comfortable answering a personnel question. Can I take it under advisement?

Information & Ethics committee  To my--