Information & Ethics committee  All I'm saying to you is if the government makes moves to implement legislation that requires us and other online companies to collect HST on behalf of the government, then we will take the steps to comply with that.

Information & Ethics committee  I'll start by replying to your last observation, which is we don't resell information, so that is not in consideration. In speaking about the specific project Duplex that was discussed at our developer conference this week, that's a project. It hasn't rolled out into implementa

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  That is true. There are levels of expertise related to individuals. If you register for a service offered by Google, you are given the service and it is assumed you are a man of a certain age who works in Ottawa. When you use our service, we can see what you do with the search r

Information & Ethics committee  The point to make would be to distinguish that we don't provide a service that allows advertisers to target individuals. What we do say is that we have identified users who search for results for hockey games and might search for results for hockey games by a particular team or i

Information & Ethics committee  We do not identify the individual. For the advertiser, all we'd say is, “You would like to deliver an advertising campaign towards people who have these qualities. We will deliver that advertising campaign.” They do not know who is seeing the ads. They don't get information abou

Information & Ethics committee  We do that.

Information & Ethics committee  I mentioned My Account. If you have an interest in understanding how we've used that information and how we've provided services to you, if you go to My Account, you can see a listing of those attributes and those qualities that we've associated with you. In terms of understandin

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Balsillie has made some very constructive recommendations around the need for a data strategy for Canada, to enable Canadian businesses and businesses competing in Canada to understand the data they have at hand and the business opportunity that is presented to them by capita

Information & Ethics committee  Are you talking about a special form for the services offered by Google?

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, and members of the committee, thank you for the invitation to appear today. It's a pleasure to be speaking with you again about these important topics. I'd also like to acknowledge that today is a particularly emotional day for Parliament. I had the good luck to spend

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I have two observations in response to that. We are still talking about a very small number of companies that are the product of findings and aren't responding to the findings or aren't engaging in the process itself. Second, what would the structure of the Office of the Privac

Information & Ethics committee  In this particular case in the report from the commissioner, it was a multi-month engagement with the commissioner's office on what was an exceptional instance of an advertiser not following the policies we had instituted on our advertising platform. It took some digging to ident

Information & Ethics committee  I think there's a challenge in the sort of prescriptive legislation that the United States has. Saying 13 is the barrier to having an account with online services effectively means that you have a world in which people pretend they're older than 13. As you said, they click on the