Industry committee  We're in conversations with the federal government and the provincial governments about the possible use of the encounter notifications API.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  No. It's an improvement to the technology. Rather than relying on an API the OS itself is improved so the app can continue in the same process.

Industry committee  It's technologically possible. Do you mean by forced download?

Industry committee  If you're thinking about a forced download process—

Industry committee  Yes, in our case we require the user to consent to the download of an application.

Industry committee  At the moment, when an update is sent to a phone you have the ability as the phone user to not consent to the update. That exists for the app and the OS.

Industry committee  The government and public health authorities are interested, as everyone is, in seeing whether or not trends are changing or are relevant in their own communities. We are rolling that out gradually and globally. In the United States, you can see data down to the county level. Tha

Industry committee  We've already done that in some jurisdictions. The intent is to roll out that next level of data—whether it's at the municipal, county or regional level—and to make that public just as we have the reports themselves right now.

Industry committee  No.

Industry committee  The variable here is the hierarchy of data that we have available to us in our Google Maps product and how it's classified. It's an interesting conversation because we divide differently those areas that you just described, depending on the province. Some are regional municipalit

Industry committee  The existing reports reflect that data gap. Some of the classifications for the territories have major gaps in the trend lines because enough information isn't available to us to anonymize and aggregate to a level that meets our expectations around privacy.

Industry committee  We're working hard to make sure that the vast majority of Android phones are able to take advantage of exposure notification, and then the subsequent OS improvements. It will be a case where it's more than a significant majority through most of our operating systems.

Industry committee  What we've seen since the mobility reports have been rolled out is that public health authorities are using them as one data point in assessing whether or not their public health orders around social isolation and broad-based community behaviour are, in fact, working. That was ou

Industry committee  We haven't disclosed the actual representation. You're right. It is a subset—opted-in users—of a subset—Android phone users and Google account users. What is useful from the information is the way that it provides a comparison with a baseline before COVID-19 hit, which is from ea