Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  We stopped using your Gmail content for advertising in 2017. That was specific to you. That information was never shared externally.

Information & Ethics committee  I can reply with an observation. We're having a conversation here where the discussion is effectively that one company has discussed how they may possibly implement this, based on a promise to do it by June 30, and how we have provided information on why we cannot introduce tools

Information & Ethics committee  Just to add a supplemental to what Mr. Kee just said, on your Google account writ more largely, you can go into “myaccount” and it will identify what we've identified as your interests across all of our products and services. You can go to myaccount and it will say in general ter

Information & Ethics committee  I believe the conversations around GDPR took upwards of four years to deliberate on the legislation itself and then its implementation. It's still going through implementation. The focus we had on GDPR from the outset was both on participating in the discussion about the content,

Information & Ethics committee  I think I'd describe that in two separate ways. It's actually broader than that, because the way our platforms and services work, we are often an enabler for Canadian businesses and Canadian companies, whether providing free services or paid services that support their infrastruc

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. At our developer's conference, we announced a browser extension for Chrome that allows you to see more detail about what ads you're seeing, where they came from—what networks—and how they arrived on your page. We're building it as an open-source tool, so that other ad networ

Information & Ethics committee  I apologize, but I'm going to answer in English. I want to underline that our decision was led by a technical evaluation about whether we could comply. It was not a specific question about the regulatory framework within Canada or our commitment to the electoral process in Cana

Information & Ethics committee  I'd contest that observation, because as we mentioned, there have been other examples where we've had to make this decision. We don't do it willingly. We look for every route we can to have that tool available to voters.

Information & Ethics committee  As Jason just mentioned, the advertising has to be blocked in France. That's the reality. The reality for us here is not a commitment to democracy in Canada. The reality here is the technical challenge we confronted, with the amendments to the Elections Act. The internal evaluati

Information & Ethics committee  The reason I paused in replying to you is that in a parliamentary system, we have fixed election dates. But conceivably, there could be an election date within the next six, nine or 18 months.

Information & Ethics committee  What I'm saying to you is that we work to improve all of our elections tools, and to meet the expectations of our users, and especially of regulations. Our intent is always to increase both the quality and the breadth of those tools. As we look at the obligations under the Elect

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  We think it's significant for us to take a decision like this. However, that number is generalized. It may not reflect the market for political advertising.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.