Information & Ethics committee  In the situation you're describing, there's a level of complexity. When we're talking about the incognito mode, we are not collecting information about your searches. We're not collecting information about your behaviour in using the browser. If you're, in fact, talking about b

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't have that in front of me right now. It's not insignificant. Also, the way people use it, they use it selectively. They may have specific searches that they don't want any record being held, or they may simply, as I explained, be using a device they do not have usual contr

Information & Ethics committee  No, you know how I would phrase that? I would actually turn it around. I would say that if everyone used that mode, and you had advertising that was less relevant to your specific interests as a skier, or as a hunter, or as a parent, you would have more generic advertising that w

Information & Ethics committee  Are you speaking specifically about privacy legislation?

Information & Ethics committee  In effect, Canadian privacy legislation, since it has a comprehensive national impact, is in some ways stronger than that in the United States. We feel we meet Canadian privacy legislation, just as we meet European privacy legislation. In effect, by meeting Canadian and European

Information & Ethics committee  We're very specific about the information we collect and why we're collecting it from users. We're also very specific about the information we don't use in creating these buckets and providing services to advertisers. Some of the information that you would consider the most sensi

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I wouldn't specifically say “profiles”, because that implies a level of personal engagement that doesn't exist. It's more buckets of information about demographic groups and specific interests rather than actual profiles.

Information & Ethics committee  I'll leave my comments to the Canadian situation. As you know, I have plenty of American colleagues who deal with the FTC and the other agencies on a daily basis. In Canada we have the advantage that we have a national private sector privacy legislation, and we actually have nat

Information & Ethics committee  To be brief, as the chair has asked, I have three children over the age of 12, and in many ways it's the same debate we've had as parents for eternity: how do you learn to control people who are becoming young adults, whether it's online or offline? But you're right, there's a

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, there is. It's just.... It's not one simple answer. The reason I'm pausing is simply because, depending on how valuable that log information is—for example, in fighting malware—we may keep it for x period of time. For web search history, it may be a different period of time.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for that question. You're right: there's a constant evolution. When we look at the marketplace right now, not just at our product but at any company's products, you can see this in your daily experience. The screens and the notices that you're given when you sign up to

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes: it cannot be hacked.