Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question. I think it's an important one and I appreciate that the committee is taking the time to think through that issue, which is a critical one. You mentioned enforcement regimes in the U.S. and Europe in comparison to Canada's, and as you point out, they're

Information & Ethics committee  That's within the privacy framework. What we might do is use that information to determine that she might be more interested in seeing ads for classical music than rock music, for example.

Information & Ethics committee  I should clarify that if Madame Borg decides to share her music interests publicly, then obviously anybody in the public can see it.

Information & Ethics committee  If she doesn't make that decision, if she chooses to share it with friends or something more narrowly, that's not information we will give to advertisers in an identifiable way unless she separately agrees to allow us to do that.

Information & Ethics committee  As you point out, we make efforts to update our data use policy on a regular basis. We consider it to be a guide to privacy on Facebook, so we want to provide information to people that's current and that reflects the way our site currently works. Many of the changes that we do

Information & Ethics committee  One of Facebook's policies is that you have to be age 13 older to gain access to our site. That's because our view is that our site is designed for people who are above that age. So we take a number of different steps to prevent children, including ages 12 and 8, as you mentioned

Information & Ethics committee  I think the portion of the policy that you're referring to is information that's received in connection with advertising. In that case, we say we receive information in connection with advertising, and then we delete it when we no longer need it. That is a general policy that app

Information & Ethics committee  When you choose to delete your information after that period, we begin this process that we call active deletion. That sends a message to the various places on Facebook that store information about you so that we can provide service to you. What happens is the content is deleted

Information & Ethics committee  The timeline is the 14 days after you submit a deletion request.

Information & Ethics committee  We'll delete or anonymize that information. In some cases we're not able to find all the places and delete the content, but we can remove links to you individually, so that when we delete your account we won't know who that information is associated with, and it won't be accessib

Information & Ethics committee  It's an important point, and it goes to one of the issues we spend a lot of time thinking about, which is user control, and making sure people have the ability to make the choices that are right for them about how their information is used. We don't give people the choice to acc

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much. I think with regard to all of these tools, we try to be transparent with users and provide them with information. We hope they are written in a way that's reasonably easy to understand, and we've received feedback from people in a number of different ways th

Information & Ethics committee  We try to provide information about how Facebook works, how information is shared in a number of different ways, in addition to the data use policy. Obviously we provide the data use policy to every user of Facebook before they can access our site. We require them to accept it, a

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. When people agree to the data use policy, we understand that they have agreed.

Information & Ethics committee  We do have a set of advertising guidelines, which I think covers the areas you're referring to. You can read them on our site. If you go to the bottom of any page, there's a link called “terms”, and that leads you to a place that provides all of our governing documents, including