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Information & Ethics committee Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. My name is Derek Slater, and at Google I help shape the company's approach to information policy and content regulation. I'm joined here by my colleague Colin McKay, who's the head of public policy for Google in Canada.
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Derek Slater
Information & Ethics committee Getting this right is absolutely essential. We do invest heavily in efforts to both anticipate and prevent efforts that would interfere with election integrity. That's by making useful information available in search or dealing with actors who might deceive or misrepresent themse
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Derek Slater
Information & Ethics committee That's a very important question. The NetzDG is a complex law, but one of the pieces that is relevant here is that it calls out, I believe, 22 specific statutes that it governs.
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Derek Slater
Information & Ethics committee I understand that, and it says, with respect to these 22 statutes, “Here is your turnaround time and your transparency reporting requirements, leading to the data you had.” I think part of what is important there is that it refers specifically to clear statutory definitions. Thes
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Derek Slater
Information & Ethics committee The issue of deepfakes.... Thanks for that question. It's a really important emerging issue. We have clear guidelines today about what content should be removed. If a deepfake were to fall under those guidelines, we would certainly remove it. We also understand this needs furthe
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Derek Slater
Information & Ethics committee I'm not familiar with the particular cases you're talking about, but we do have strict guidelines about things like incitement to violence, or invasion of privacy and the like. If notified, and if we become aware of it, we would take action, if it's in violation of those guidelin
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Derek Slater
Information & Ethics committee They've given you extensive information on this front, but just to add a bit, yes, we are a different service, and while we knew regrettably that we would not be in a position to offer election advertising in this time, we would look to it in the future.
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Derek Slater
Information & Ethics committee We are very different services with different features of various types.
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Derek Slater
Information & Ethics committee In part, it's because things continue to change over time. It's a rapidly evolving space, both legally and in terms of our services. Therefore, in terms of exactly when it will be ready, we wouldn't want to put—
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Derek Slater
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Derek Slater
Information & Ethics committee Correct.
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Derek Slater
Information & Ethics committee If I understand the question correctly, it is simpler to take a more conservative approach, an approach that is more broadly restrictive than one that says, yes, we're going to validate that this is an election ad operating under the law, and so on and so forth.
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Derek Slater
Information & Ethics committee Yes, we may be blocking it for a variety of reasons if it violates our policies.
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Derek Slater
Information & Ethics committee There is a big difference between saying we're going to take, in general, a conservative approach here and saying, on the other hand, “I'm going to say clearly this is a legitimate election ad”, taking that further step.
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Derek Slater
Information & Ethics committee The needs of implementing the law in the specific way it was written were prohibitive for us in this period of time to get it right, and if we're going to have election ads in the country, we absolutely need to and want to get it right. That was the decision we had to make here
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Derek Slater