Information & Ethics committee  To be clear, if they don't want to use Google Buzz, then they have no reason to be signed up for it, and there's a way in their settings to just turn it off and get rid of it. So if they don't want to use Google Buzz, there's an easy way to get rid of it, and if—

Information & Ethics committee  That's not correct. What happened was that every Gmail user was given the opportunity to join this additional service, which was built into Gmail, but it was not obligatory that people sign up for it.

Information & Ethics committee  That's right. There were a number of interstitials that users had to go through in order to get access to Google Buzz and start using it. But different users didn't like that sign-up process, in any event—which we changed.

Information & Ethics committee  We have a significant portion of the country mapped. The way to see it is by going to Google Maps and finding the little “peg man”, as we call him. I don't make up these names; I just repeat them at committee. You drag “peg man” over the map and all of the places that are covered

Information & Ethics committee  That's a great question. Thank you. The short answer to your question is that there's no particular timeline, but with your indulgence, I have an interesting anecdote for you that provides a bit of colour to this. During the last collection of data we photographed the city of

Information & Ethics committee  Ah, ah!

Information & Ethics committee  So when I--

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not 100% sure.

Information & Ethics committee  If I'm instructed by a parliamentary committee to do something, then I'm going to do it, I guess. I will consult with our external lawyers on this, because there could be all sorts of reasons why we may or may not be able to disclose it. But I understand the point you're making.

Information & Ethics committee  Understood.

Information & Ethics committee  The third one was increased privacy training for all engineering staff. It's also for staff throughout the company, but in particular for engineers. If it's interesting for the committee, I've already had some preliminary discussions and my colleagues have had some preliminary di

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  I gave you a curt answer; I apologize. I can go into a bit more detail about Google Buzz. The best way to describe it is kind of taking the functionality of Twitter, public updates—or private updates for that matter—and integrating that into Gmail. The way that was launched pro

Information & Ethics committee  The answer is that I don't know what the communication to the commissioner is going to be at that time, but I can tell you that we're working hard to have a full answer so that she can consider this matter resolved. I should say that I've talked directly to Dr. Whitten precisely

Information & Ethics committee  I think the key here is not the kinds of punitive measures that get put into place from an HR perspective, but rather the total system of compliance and checks and balances that gets created. At the end of the day, it's about Canadians. Resolving this matter is about the commissi