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Information & Ethics committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I'd just like to start by congratulating you and the members of your committee for the excellent job you've done in hosting and chairing these sessions. I think it's done exactly what we hoped it would do. It has built on the work we started in London.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee Okay. I think this is pretty basic stuff. My concern is that data is being shared between the two platforms. Again, in a question asked in The New York Times investigation, it said there were preferential data reciprocity agreements between Amazon, between Microsoft and Facebook, so that they not only had access to the data about the Facebook accounts of their users but the users' friends as well, which was a setting that had been turned off for other apps.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee I don't know whether that means you don't know what to say or you don't know. Either way, if you could write to us, we'd be grateful.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee You're saying you can't do it. You can't connect your Facebook and Amazon accounts.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee Thank you. I will start with Mr. Ryland and Amazon. Following on from the chair's comments about Facebook, if I connect my Amazon account to Facebook, what data am I sharing between the two platforms?
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee There was the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee in London, which I chaired with my colleagues here. We published some documents in December of last year that were relevant to the Six4Three case. At the same time, there was also an investigation by The New York Times that suggested a series of major companies had entered into special data reciprocity agreements with Facebook so that they had access to their users' Facebook data and to their friends' data as well.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee It was a quite major story in The New York Times last year. I'm amazed that you were not briefed on it. I'll ask the same question of Microsoft as well. You can log into Skype with your Facebook account. Again, if you're connecting your Skype and your Facebook accounts, what sort of data are you sharing between them?
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee What type of data is shared between the different accounts? For users who do that, what type of data about their Skype usage is shared with Facebook?
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee Yes, but all these Facebook log-ins have data reciprocity agreements built into them as well. The question is whether—
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee I know the way the basic log-in works, but these log-in arrangements with Facebook give reciprocal access to data between the two. There's actual connecting, effectively.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee Then it's in the terms and conditions.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee In layman's terms, would Facebook know who I was engaging with on Skype?
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee Okay. I'll just go back to Amazon. I want to quickly get this out. Under “How do I connect my Facebook account to Amazon?”, Amazon.com says: From Settings, tap My Accounts, and then tap Connect your social networks. Tap Connect Your Facebook Account. Enter your log-in information, and then tap Connect.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee It's a lot of data.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee It would seem that all of their commands to Alexa that are triggered by the wake word are being retained by the company in the cloud. Do you think your users are aware of that?
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins