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Information & Ethics committee As far as I know, that's true. I'll follow up to make sure that's true.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Ryland
Information & Ethics committee I'm not familiar with any way in which you do connect your Facebook account to Amazon. I know that Amazon can be used as a log-in service for some other websites, but Facebook is not one of those. I'm not familiar with any other connection model.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Ryland
Information & Ethics committee I'll have to get back to you on that. I really don't know the answer to that question.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Ryland
Information & Ethics committee We do have our data centres in multiple countries around the world, including Canada. There is legal control there, but we have to obey the laws of all the countries where we operate. Those laws may have extraterritorial impact as well.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Ryland
Information & Ethics committee I don't know the answer to that, but I'd be happy to look it up for you.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Ryland
Information & Ethics committee I don't know the facts surrounding the questions you just raised, so I can't really answer. I would be happy to get back to you on that.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Ryland
Information & Ethics committee We don't use the data we acquire for supporting our third party seller marketplace. We don't use that data for purposes of our own retail business or for purposes of product lines that we launch.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Ryland
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Ryland
Information & Ethics committee We track the data for supporting that business and the customers of that business. We don't use that data in our retail business.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Ryland
Information & Ethics committee In terms of the part of our business that supports this vast third party marketplace, which has enabled great success for thousands of companies and mom-and-pop shops around the globe, absolutely that part of our business uses the data to maximize the success of the marketplace.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Ryland
Information & Ethics committee If you look at our history of acquisitions, they tend to be very small and very targeted, so in general, the answer would be no.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Ryland
Information & Ethics committee Yes, I would be happy to. We face robust competition in all the markets we operate in. Cloud computing is a great example. There are not a large number of players in the cloud market, but competition is very strong, prices are dropping, and it enables, as my colleague was saying, new kinds of business models that were really previously impossible.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Ryland
Information & Ethics committee No, you can do it through us or our competitors.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Ryland
Information & Ethics committee There are not a huge number of competitors, but the competition is fierce.
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Ryland
Information & Ethics committee There's a huge market in book sales from all kinds of retailers, from Walmart to—
May 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Ryland