Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. My apologies, since the other U.K. representatives and I were not here for the start of the session, but we're delighted to see all of the witnesses here on the panel. We had focused yesterday on some of the social media platforms, but I think our interests are much

Information & Ethics committee  Is it collecting information about the environment they're in at the moment? Let's say, for example, I was commuting to work and I was on the bus. Would it pick up that sort of ambient sound?

Information & Ethics committee  The only purpose of the listening is for a command to Siri.

Information & Ethics committee  For product development or training purposes, is any of that information retained by the company?

Information & Ethics committee  What would the scope of that data be?

Information & Ethics committee  Would Apple keep a record of the sort of things I've asked Siri about, the commands I've given?

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much. Ellen Weintraub, given what we've talked about this afternoon, dark money in politics and how difficult it is to have any kind of proper oversight of what happens on platforms like Facebook, are you frightened by the news reporting that Facebook is going to

Information & Ethics committee  You are. You're frightened by the prospect. I think you're right to be frightened by the prospect. Given all the other problems we've talked about, this seems like a sort of political money launderer's charter. Do you not think people will look back on this period of time and s

Information & Ethics committee  But in some ways, listening to the discussion in this last session, we're tying ourselves in knots trying to solve a problem that's being caused by a company. Actually it may well be that the solution is, rather than having to abandon lots of things that we value because they've

Information & Ethics committee  The final comment from me is that I think that's right. Those rules have been demonstrated to be out of date because of new technology and the way people engage with content in the world. Surely, what should remain is the values that brought in those rules in the first place. Say

Information & Ethics committee  Have there been any particular examples that have come to the awareness of your commission?

Information & Ethics committee  I just wondered whether any particular allegations had been made, or whether there had been cause for any further investigation about what might be considered to be suspicious activity.

Information & Ethics committee  Do you have any concerns about the way technologies like PayPal could be used as well to bring money in from sources trying to hide their identity or even from abroad?

Information & Ethics committee  I'd be interested in the comments of all three of the witnesses in response to my next question. Ad transparency seems to be one of the most important things we should push for. Certainly in the U.K., and I think in other countries as well, our electoral law was based on underst

Information & Ethics committee  I'd be interested in hearing from the other two panellists as well, whether they have any concern regarding how we would create a robust system of ad transparency online.