Information & Ethics committee  It's the email address and name. There's a third element, but it's not sensitive. It's those two pieces, and then you have to engage with a third party app developer to agree to provide—

Information & Ethics committee  There's no third party app developer, who without engaging with you in a specific conversation about consent to grant access to other information in some circumstances by you providing information to the app developer—

Information & Ethics committee  When you're installing an app on a licensed Android phone, you're given a specific menu that is required to have a link to a comprehensive and clear privacy policy so you understand their attitude towards privacy and security. Then it specifically identifies those elements of inf

Information & Ethics committee  If you dig into that tool, you'll see your location history. Your location history is something that you explicitly signed into when you were setting up your phone. You have the ability to go into your phone and both turn off the location history as a whole for all the services—

Information & Ethics committee  If you're looking at specific parts of our advertising network, there is in fact a little reverse D that you can press on, and it will tell you why you saw that ad in our display network.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, you've described it right there. You just called it up while we were talking, and you have 59 items, some of which are wrong. I have to tell you that for quite a few years the majority of Google thought I was a woman.

Information & Ethics committee  You and I are speaking to a similar goal, which is, you're right. You should have the ability to understand how you're exchanging your information with us, and how we're using it to deliver services. We try to do that in a suite that we've developed, whether it's through My Accou

Information & Ethics committee  If they're using our products, no. We don't serve ads based on the content of your email or your Hangouts. All we do is search that content to make sure you're not seeing malware or experiencing a phishing attempt or some sort of breach to your personal security. We run automated

Information & Ethics committee  That's why, in my opening remarks, I had a list of tools we have developed that are available to users. You're right. There needs to be transparency around what we're collecting and clarity around why we're collecting it and what benefit it has to the user. Over the years we've l

Information & Ethics committee  The public policy is not to reach a space that is uncomfortable for our users. The policy we have in product development is to develop leading-edge products that provide the greatest range of benefits for our users. There are different rates of adoption and different levels of co

Information & Ethics committee  I'll answer that in two stages. Number one, we provide ad technology services to newspapers, and we provide revenue—

Information & Ethics committee  I want to differentiate because your study is predicated on one company's behaviour. We provide services to newspapers that allow them to increase opportunities to gain revenue from their online viewers. Your second question about GST, yes. If the government takes the steps to m

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think it would be Minister Joly, would it? It would be Minister Morneau. It's up to the government to make that decision.

Information & Ethics committee  Number one, we do pay tax on certain of our sales, like hardware and other elements of our sales in Canada.