Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Mr. McKay, for joining us again.
Let me say at the beginning that I consider the Google search engine to be the pre-eminent search engine in the world. I used it in my previous life as a journalist in the mid-1990s. I use it every day dozens of times, and I think the benefits of that Google search engine are in many ways invaluable.
In recent days, we have learned that there is a dark side to Google's commitments and policy positions, even in terms of a contradiction between your last appearance here and your appearance today. On May 10, you were asked:
Has there actually been any data breaches from Google's databases compared to what's happened with Facebook?
You replied as follows:
Not that we're aware of.
Would you like to correct that now? Were you aware of it at the time? We understand that Google sat for three years with the knowledge that there had been a serious breach of Google's data and that the actions taken earlier in March were simply to close down for fear of comparison with the Facebook breach.