Information & Ethics committee  As I said, I'm not an expert on competition law. We certainly obey the laws of the countries and regions in which we operate, and we will continue to do so.

Information & Ethics committee  I really should get back to you on that. I'm not an expert in that area. I'd be happy to follow up with our experts in that area.

Information & Ethics committee  No, I don't agree with it.

Information & Ethics committee  We're a relatively large company, but of course, that is largely the result of the fact that we operate globally. We operate in a lot of different markets. In any given market segment, we typically can be often a very small or middle-size player. Again, I'm not going to opine in any depth about competition laws.

Information & Ethics committee  Similarly, we've been protecting customer data very successfully for 20-plus years. This is a new kind of data, obviously a very sensitive kind, but we continue to have a very successful record there, and there's no indication of any kind of compromise of Alexa-related data.

Information & Ethics committee  It's part of your account data.

Information & Ethics committee  I think so. In my experience with using a mobile device to set up the device at home, I immediately noticed that there is a history icon, essentially, where I can go and see all my interaction with the system.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, absolutely. It's in the mobile app, on the website and on the Alexa privacy page that you can see all of your interactions. You can see what the transcription system believed you said, and so forth.

Information & Ethics committee  We do contract with third parties for certain delivery of some services and, under very carefully controlled conditions, we share personal data. For example, if we're contracting with a delivery service, we share the name and address of the customer where the package has to be delivered, but I think, for all of these core machine-learning cases of the kind you're talking about, that is all internal to our company.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, we're certainly constantly working to refine the technology and make sure the wake word is the way by which people interact with the device.

Information & Ethics committee  That is correct.

Information & Ethics committee  Similarly, the device listens for a wake-up word. It doesn't store any of that ambient data. Once it's awakened, it will begin to stream data to the cloud to do analysis of what the user is actually requesting. That data is stored; it's explicit in the user's profile, and they can see all the utterances.

Information & Ethics committee  No. It's very similar. We're retaining the utterances after the wake word. It is just like Siri in that regard.

Information & Ethics committee  That sounds like a malfunction to me. It's not supposed to respond randomly to ambient sounds.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. It's only the data that is in response to the user's attempt to interact with Alexa, which is based on the wake word.