Information & Ethics committee  If I may add to that, the process is still going on. I've put up one slide that shows the main regulations in the EU. The same thing that has happened in Estonia is now happening in the EU states. The first directive, the EU data regulation, is all about electronic identity and providing digital trust services.

Information & Ethics committee  Profiling persons.

Information & Ethics committee  Profiling is not allowed according to the new EU data protection regulation. It is prohibited, basically.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Basically, you cannot profile persons through the social media.

Information & Ethics committee  Each time the private sector wants to use personal data or they want to get connectivity to the X-Road environment, they have to prove their need to the data protection inspectorate. They have to justify why they need it. The data protection inspectorate allows them to use the personal data.

Information & Ethics committee  There are limitations concerning the critical or essential services. Banking systems are one of them. For example, after the 2007 attacks, some Swedish banks wanted to take the data from Estonia and keep it in Sweden. The Estonian Parliament regulated that the data concerning banking information must also be located in Estonia.

Information & Ethics committee  In this case, we don't have defined penalties. Every time this kind of incident happens, we have an investigation, and then there is a court decision as to what the penalty is going to be.

Information & Ethics committee  Our government doesn't collect data from Facebook. The only data that our government collects is as Liia has mentioned, according to the legislation directly from the data owners, the citizens.

Information & Ethics committee  If you have difficulty, you can always go to the government service centre and get help there, but the digital solutions or services scheme is that if I want to do it over the Internet, I don't need to go to the government service centre. I can do all my digital operations or interaction with the government wherever I am—in Canada, Australia, or New Zealand.

Information & Ethics committee  That's a very good question, because there has been a lot of hype about blockchain in recent years. Everybody talks about it, but we use it to make digital signatures secure. We started to use blockchain logic before the name was even invented. Once we issued the first ID card in 2002, blockchain logic was already implemented in the system.

Information & Ethics committee  That's what we are working with on a daily basis. Finland is one country. We have done this in other countries as well, although not so much in Europe, but it depends on different countries' approaches to the data exchange. We believe it is the best solution to how you can connect different databases.

Information & Ethics committee  We have actually measured how younger and older people approach this voting process. The statistics are quite interesting. They show that young people take more time to vote, and the elders do it more quickly and efficiently. They don't surf on the voting website, but they follow exactly the procedure that they're supposed to follow, while the younger generation just surf and don't always push the correct buttons.

Information & Ethics committee  A very quick comment is that the voting system is not totally separate from what we have already talked about. It's still based on the ID cards, with a very good encryption system.

Information & Ethics committee  Of course it's a very good question, but there is no way to be 100% sure or identify the person. Our police use different techniques to solve cybercrimes. One part is the ID card, but of course the ID card itself doesn't give 100% certainty, so they have to use other techniques as well to investigate the cases.

Information & Ethics committee  In general terms, yes, I am prepared to answer questions; if you go very specific, then of course I am not.