Procedure and House Affairs committee  We've made the offer to meet with any political party to give advice.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Right now it would be limited to kind of architectural advice in terms of how to set up systems and how to—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. We are limited in terms of providing services.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Everything can be. Now you can make it hard and very expensive.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I actually don't have the detailed information on how individual political parties—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. That's something that would have to be a direct request. We would probably refer to a commercial service to do that rather than us doing that sort of test.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To my knowledge, no, we have never had a request to refer a political party to any service like that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think, as you look at some of the recent activities in terms of some of the things that have come out about social media and trend analysis, etc., that certainly would be the type of data you could use to profile.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  From the—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  All of those types of things have been shown to have a very high commercial value, especially in terms of direct targeting, whether it's for commercial marketing or targeting in terms of social media engagement.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Of course.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. In the report, we actually point out that this is probably where we're more vulnerable. The election itself is quite secure in terms of paper ballots and hand—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Certainly there's misinformation, but there's also the fact that social media is set up such that you don't always know why you're getting information pushed to you, because it's profiled based on other things.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Low-sophistication activity.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That would mean the normal use of things, such as low-level denial of service attacks and things like that.