Information & Ethics committee  My understanding is that all the data was held in the same place, in fact, so this is--

Information & Ethics committee  I'm Google's Canada policy counsel. In that role, I work on public policy issues relevant to Google here in Canada. Google is receiving other Canadian legal advice. To be clear, I'm not the person who advises Google specifically on the legal ramifications of what to do in Canada,

Information & Ethics committee  Well, don't forget that the Irish data was deleted on the advice of the Irish data privacy commissioner in May, or around May I should say, as I don't know the precise date. We weren't asked to hold on to the data for any period, and that can affect the analysis as well, because

Information & Ethics committee  Just to be clear on what the Privacy Commissioner said, she raises this issue twice in her report, in paragraph 69, and then in her recommendations in paragraph 72. In paragraph 69, she says: “To this, I would like to add that not only privacy laws, but other applicable laws in t

Information & Ethics committee  It would be inappropriate for me to speculate on that, because I'm not a U.S. lawyer.

Information & Ethics committee  But there's no mystery. In fairness, I don't want to leave you thinking that there's some mystery law here that hasn't been identified. It's precisely what the commissioner said in paragraph 69, which is simply the “applicable laws...including laws of evidence”. Mr. Chair, membe

Information & Ethics committee  It's being stored in a secure facility in California, the same place it's been stored in since the Privacy Commissioner's investigators reviewed it.

Information & Ethics committee  As far as I know, it's in a secure facility there. I don't know that it's on the Google campus. I think it's being held by a third party, but I'm not 100% certain about that. Dr. Whitten may have some additional information. Wherever it was being stored at the time that the Pri

Information & Ethics committee  Well, it left Canada when it was collected in the cars. So it's not like it left Canada during the process of this investigation.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much. First, I think I said in my remarks to the committee on November 4 that we had deleted the U.K. data. I actually am not sure that this is the case. I misspoke when I said that, because I thought that the investigation had been concluded. In fact, it conclude

Information & Ethics committee  I can't say for certain, but my expectation is that by the new year we'll have some much more definitive answers as to what data we can delete, if any. As part of the process set in motion by the Privacy Commissioner, we'll be reporting back to her in accordance with her draft

Information & Ethics committee  Sure. Thanks very much, Mr. Chair. I hope the members can hear me. As you know, when we were at committee last time, we hadn't yet begun the analysis of what steps, if any, we could take to delete the data pursuant to the direction of the Privacy Commissioner. At that time, I pr

Information & Ethics committee  No, Mr. Chair. I will only thank the committee for having us back and will give the floor to Dr. Whitten, who I think has some remarks.

Information & Ethics committee  I can hear you and I can see you a little bit. The audio is fine. The screen is flickering quite a bit in terms of the video.

Information & Ethics committee  I think it's based on well understood practices in the industry. How this is done, I don't--