Information & Ethics committee  I would confirm that last point. I saw that you were recommending giving more powers to the privacy commissioner. That's hugely important. I think the powers that the ICO commissioner had came in at the 11th hour. She was fortunate to have those, so I would recommend that. Certa

Information & Ethics committee  I would try to avoid the government mandating this, but there are things we can learn from the GDPR in Europe. It is probably the most-discussed regulation around data right now, and probably the most forward-looking. There's something in there called purpose limitations, which

Information & Ethics committee  As far as we understand, Apple is not using that data to also then micro-target ads at you or use it for any other purpose.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. You have a number of recommendations in your report that will start to address the problem. We've talked a lot about the data piece: limiting their use of data, because that's where the value is coming from. As soon as you put a constraint on that, it restricts that profit.

Information & Ethics committee  From our perspective it's been very disappointing. I sent a letter on behalf of our association to Mr. Zuckerberg in November 2016 around the time of the election, asking for what we described as “moonshots”, saying that it was that big a problem. They clearly have some of the be

Information & Ethics committee  Toward PR and criticizing the media and anybody who's trying to hold them accountable.

Information & Ethics committee  From my perspective, particularly with Facebook, we're past that, and that's where I'm hopeful that the FTC steps in and enforces the consent decree. It's on probation from seven or eight years ago. For many of the issues you led your question with, including the way the politi

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, across the U.S. and North America, and 85% of the growth is going to two companies whose business is data collection.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, one of the things that's most challenging, going back to their strategy, is that you'll hear Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg both make the point that this is their business and this is the way it works. If not, everybody is going to have to pay for the product, and 2.3 billi

Information & Ethics committee  I would only add that this does speak to the issue of why Facebook needs to be held accountable. There's a study each year from Edelman called the “Trust Barometer”, and we saw that institutional trust declined in light of Facebook. Edelman went deeper for the first time and star

Information & Ethics committee  I think it's holding Facebook accountable. It forces them to raise the trust in their own product, which can be a very long term issue for them—they might be stuck in this bad cycle—and it raises the trust level in the entire platform.

Information & Ethics committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to speak before your committee today. I have closely followed the work of this committee, including its superb representation by the chair and vice-chairs in last November's International Grand Committee on Disinformation and ‘fake n