Information & Ethics committee  It was a program written by a Google engineer, but I think it was based on an open-source program.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, the open-source software is publicly available and you could download it in your office later today. In terms of the specific code at issue that collected the payload data, that code was examined by third-party auditors, and their report is available on our blog. We've made

Information & Ethics committee  I'll just say thank you, Mr. Chair, for having me here today, and thank you to the members of the committee for your thoughtful questions.

Information & Ethics committee  Thanks very much for the questions. I'll answer them in reverse order, if you don't mind, just for the committee's benefit. We are looking for, literally, the top engineering minds in Canada, and we're attracting them because of what a quality place it is to work. Frankly, it i

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not a U.S. lawyer, so I wouldn't speculate.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not aware of anything, but again, this is going to be part of the process that we go through as soon as I leave this room and call--

Information & Ethics committee  Again, Mr. Chair, if we go through this process and determine that we can delete it asap, and that's what the commissioner wants, we'll go ahead and do that and we'll advise the committee that we've done that.

Information & Ethics committee  Right.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't see any inherent problem with that. It all depends on availability. In this case in particular, for example, the committee wanted to hear from Google on very short notice, and it was important to us to appear because we wanted to be able to answer your questions.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't know the names of all the companies globally or in Canada who do that, but there are certainly quite a number of companies operating in Canada, at least that I'm aware of. By the way, there's a way that this could be done through what's called crowd-sourced data. If you G

Information & Ethics committee  Again, it's an excellent question. The facial recognition technology we use is literally the most sophisticated in the world. We developed it precisely so we could protect people's privacy. It's funny, because you can go into Best Buy or Costco and get a camera that shows wher

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, rural areas across the country have been covered. I don't know about those areas in particular. As soon as I go home I'm going to see if--

Information & Ethics committee  --New Dundee and Elora and Elmira and St. Jacobs and Fergus, all those communities, are up there.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

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