Thank you.
Again, we cannot do this alone.
In Canada, during Bullying Awareness Week, we partnered with seven Canadian safety organizations, including PREVNet, Kids Help Phone, and MediaSmarts, on the “be bold: stop bullying” campaign. Students across Canada have learned what they can do to stop bullying and have taken a pledge to prevent bullying in their communities.
We appreciate the government's interest in modernizing law enforcement tools to combat bullying and harassment, and we support finding ways to give law enforcement the tools to fight online crime in a way that respects Canadians' right to privacy. As an industry, we have called on governments to ensure that all law enforcement efforts to collect data are consistent with global norms of free expression and privacy, which means they must be rule-bound, narrowly tailored, transparent, and subject to oversight. We believe that these principles are fundamental to the protection of privacy rights.
In closing, I'd like to again thank this committee for the opportunity to speak with you today. All of us at Facebook share in your commitment to keeping Canadians safe online. We appreciate the opportunity to share some steps that we're taking to maintain a safe community, and our ideas for creating a better Internet.
I look forward to your questions after the break.