Information & Ethics committee  The answer is that I don't know what the communication to the commissioner is going to be at that time, but I can tell you that we're working hard to have a full answer so that she can consider this matter resolved. I should say that I've talked directly to Dr. Whitten precisely on this issue in the last week, and she's working flat out to try to implement the changes we've announced so that we can come back to the commissioner with not just announcements but real, substantive changes.

Information & Ethics committee  I think the key here is not the kinds of punitive measures that get put into place from an HR perspective, but rather the total system of compliance and checks and balances that gets created. At the end of the day, it's about Canadians. Resolving this matter is about the commissioner, but at the end of the day, it's about Canadians.

Information & Ethics committee  The answer is that I actually don't know the answer.

Information & Ethics committee  The first is, if you have a home Wi-Fi router, put a password on it.

Information & Ethics committee  I think this is something Canadians genuinely ought to be taking steps to protect themselves from, and there are important steps that every single Canadian can take to protect themselves and their data. I can name two for you.

Information & Ethics committee  That effectively puts encryption on your network, which means that the data travelling back and forth is gibberish. No one can read it unless they have a quantum computer. I'm being facetious. I'm not aware of the existence of a quantum computer that can break encryption, I should add.

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct.

Information & Ethics committee  Precisely.

Information & Ethics committee  This is where the market comes in. Canadians should choose services that have encryption built into them. There are, for example, a number of different web mail products. To my knowledge, Google's Gmail is the only major web mail service that has encrypted connections built into it.

Information & Ethics committee  I cannot, unfortunately, comment on a personnel matter.

Information & Ethics committee  That's right. Thank you for the question. You've got it exactly, which is that we want engineers themselves to be knowledgeable and accountable for the products they create. In addition to that, though--and this is important--we are building additional checks and balances into the system, so that even if somebody makes a mistake or an error in judgment, that doesn't percolate all the way through to launch.

Information & Ethics committee  It would be the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Ireland, Australia....

Information & Ethics committee  We reported to the privacy commissioners in countries affected by this mistaken collection of data.

Information & Ethics committee  It would be the countries in which Street View is available. I don't know all of them off the top of my head.

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct.