Information & Ethics committee  At Microsoft, Satya Nadella has made it a top priority, and we recognize that our decisions and our products are better if our company better reflects the communities we serve. Here in Canada, we're working to have Microsoft Canada reflect the cultural mosaic that Canada has, w

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  We're committed to the GDPR and the data portability principles. The big question comes around the interoperability of those profiles or that data, and making sure that you can move them from one place to another in a format that's appropriate. The jury is still out about where p

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely. We've even seen in cloud computing the industry move to take arbitrary activities and move them from one place to another. That's something that we've embraced. We've also looked to the open-source/open data community for advice and guidance.

Information & Ethics committee  Personal information is maintained by each individual business line.

Information & Ethics committee  This is a consistent purpose—

Information & Ethics committee  It's a consistent purpose question, right? So we, as a—

Information & Ethics committee  I will have to answer that I cannot affirm or deny that there is.... I don't have that knowledge.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely not. LinkedIn remains rather independent from the organization.

Information & Ethics committee  Any transfer of.... Excuse me. Let me step back from that. Any connection between your LinkedIn profile and, let's say, your Office toolset is done by the user, and that's a connection that's done explicitly. For example, in your email clients, you may choose to leverage your Lin

Information & Ethics committee  LinkedIn doesn't share that information across the business from the back end.

Information & Ethics committee  As a general rule, each business line is independent.

Information & Ethics committee  It's all about the data, and in particular safeguarding the data and how the data is used. I think you need to look more broadly at the data use. Perhaps data sheets for data would help in that regard, because I think privacy is about that data's security and accessibility.

Information & Ethics committee  To be clear, the information we collect is only there for the products. We're not looking at doing things personalized to you and you only, to target to you. When we find that people aren't using a feature, grosso modo we anonymize, pseudonymize, and that's a great feature. We