Thank you very much.
I'd like to begin with the lack of utility of the idea of consent anymore. When you want to use a certain app or you want to use something, there are good purposes and bad purposes. Let's say that, for instance, I'm on my iPhone and I'm leaving Parliament and it's 9 p.m. My iPhone tells me exactly which route to take to get to my home. It knows where I live because it has seen that I take that route every day, and if I suddenly start taking a different route to a different place, it will know that as well.
Well, that's great when I want to know whether or not I should take the 417, but for my phone to know exactly where I'm sleeping every night is also something that could be very disturbing for a lot of people.
We don't really have a choice. If we want to use certain services, if we want to be able to access Google Maps or anything like that, we have to say yes, but then there's that alternate use of that data.
By the way, on the comment about this being a public hearing, we have a tickertape right on the side of the wall there that says this is in public. I wish there were a tickertape like that when you're searching on the Internet so that you know whether what you're doing is going to be recorded or made public.
My question, particularly to Apple, is on your collection of data about where I've been. It's not just a matter of where I'm going that day. It's not that I want to get from A to B and I want to know what bus route I should take; it's that it knows exactly the patterns of where I am travelling in terms of location.
How much of that is being stored, and what are the other purposes that this could be used for?