Information & Ethics committee  Of course.

Information & Ethics committee  I see. You retain the rights to the content that you submit to the service, as is written in our terms of service. You do give us permission, so you give us a licence, to distribute it on the service. This is an issue that Twitter is actually litigating in a court in New York a

Information & Ethics committee  I would certainly say that our experience—for example, with the product launch I mentioned—really was doing privacy by design. We did it in a very collaborative way with the U.S. FTC and with others in the privacy community. Being able to have that kind of back-and-forth relati

Information & Ethics committee  No, I'm just trying to make sure that I understand. Is your concern about certain communications or is there...?

Information & Ethics committee  Do you mean protect Twitter, as a company?

Information & Ethics committee  What do we need to protect it from?

Information & Ethics committee  Oh, so you mean security-related?

Information & Ethics committee  I see. Absolutely. As we grow and become bigger, security and having secure systems are enormous priorities for the company. Security has actually been a priority for the company in the last couple of years, as we've been scaling up just to handle the enormous volume of tweets w

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, and perhaps it's not surprising that since we're a service that's about simplicity and 140 characters, we do favour brevity. We've taken great pains to try to make our privacy policy shorter than many, and we are very user-friendly in the language we use. We also think it'

Information & Ethics committee  Our philosophy around that is to empower people to have the tools to do it themselves, to protect themselves. That's where the protected accounts come in, and the ability to block particular people. You can be anonymous on the service. You can not agree to let other people see yo

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. For example, for violations of our rules, we do have a process for people to submit complaints to us, and that's how we respond to them, given the volume of content that we have on our service.

Information & Ethics committee  Exactly.

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, I think this gets back to our privacy philosophy. We think it's really important that it be clear with users why we're collecting the information and how it gets used, and that we give them abilities to delete the information and to do so in a way that's more granular than