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Information & Ethics committee It depends on the individual practice in individual countries. I'm reticent to comment on the electoral law of other countries that I'm simply not familiar with. I know with respect to our own policies we've applied around political advertising in countries where we've deployed
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Jason Kee
Information & Ethics committee It's simply because the systems we've deployed in the U.S., the EU and India would not have accommodated the specific requirements in Bill C-76. If we had moved forward with that, we would have actually implemented a similar system. We actually have had preliminary conversations
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Jason Kee
Information & Ethics committee That's correct.
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Jason Kee
Information & Ethics committee That's correct, because basically if the ad was displayed at 11:59 p.m., the registry would have to be updated by midnight.
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Jason Kee
Information & Ethics committee Again, it's simply because technically it wasn't feasible for us to do that.
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Jason Kee
Information & Ethics committee Our engineers told us it wouldn't be feasible for us to do that.
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Jason Kee
Information & Ethics committee It would have been a challenge for us to re-architect within six months the entire underlying systems that we have for online advertising.
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Jason Kee
Information & Ethics committee That was not a calculus that entered into the determinations at all. It was fundamentally down to how we would engage the requirements, whether it was technically feasible for us, given the way our systems currently work, given the time frames and, frankly, our risk tolerance, wi
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Jason Kee
Information & Ethics committee It had to do with some of the wording, which was vague. Again, there were the concerns I flagged with respect to the issue of ads, but as well, it was the time frame that would be required to update the registry based on this idea, as stated in the act, that it had to be done wit
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Jason Kee
Information & Ethics committee It's actually a combination of all of the above. What's happening is that in order to implement the prohibition, we will be updating our ads policies. As I said, there are entire classes of ads where basically we will not accept the ad, such as cannabis advertising. There's anot
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Jason Kee
Information & Ethics committee Primarily because the advertising systems are a bit different, in terms of how the creative is being uploaded to us, how it's stored and how it's managed internally. That's why I said it would be the kind of thing that we would work towards, but we didn't feel comfortable this ti
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Jason Kee
Information & Ethics committee To be honest with you, it's not a question I could answer, simply because after examining it seriously, we couldn't match the time frame we had. I couldn't give you an estimate as to how long it would take, or what the resources required would be.
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Jason Kee
Information & Ethics committee That is in no way a reflection on the relative view of the importance of Canada or local law, in terms of the application of our content identification system. For the benefit of the other committee members who aren't necessarily familiar with it, Content ID is our copyright ma
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Jason Kee
Information & Ethics committee Essentially, the main difference, at the risk of getting slightly technical, is that fair dealing in Canada is an exception to infringement. It is a defence that one raises in response to a claim that you have engaged in an act of infringement, so the way that is managed is very
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Jason Kee
Information & Ethics committee There are actually two separate discussion points that you raised there. One is that we keep on saying the word “authoritative”. What do we mean by that? That's a perfectly fair question. It's basically something that informs Google Search, Google News and YouTube as well. We ac
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Jason Kee