Thank you very much. I understand what you've said, and I understand that you're waiting until January. In the meantime, am I understanding that Google has denied any doing of this intentionally? It was all sorry, we made a mistake, people weren't properly trained, etc.
In the meantime, do you feel comfortable that you can accept Google's word that they are going to comply at least with the intent if not with all of the things they said they would do? And there is a real concern that employees at Google, if they have access to this information, could personally use it in instances when they know some of the people and could go out there and either psychologically or whatever, blackmail, use this against a person they happen to know in personal conversations. Are you satisfied that this isn't happening? That's my first question.
Secondly, you know that in Europe they have taken far more stringent steps than I think the Privacy Commissioner is suggesting to Google here, which is kind of that Google get its act together, do what it's supposed to do. In Italy and in Europe, they don't seem to think so. What they're asking is that Google vans have stickers saying that they are collecting payload data and that they notify the communities through which they're going, three days before they go there, both in terms of some kind of communiqué, posters, or whatever, and on radio and in newspapers, so that people can shut down some of the things that they're doing at the same time. Because this is a real invasion of privacy. This could be serious in many instances. It could lead to all kinds of complications for people, not only in terms of embarrassment, but in terms of theft. People will know a lot of things about when people are home, where they're going for holidays, and could therefore know that their homes are ready for rifling. There could also be situations in which a person is having a simple conversation that is misinterpreted by someone to be criminal activity when it isn't.
So I think this is a huge issue and I would like to have your answer on these two questions. One, are you satisfied? Do you trust Google at this point in time? And, two,what about the European regulations?