Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I'd just like to start by congratulating you and the members of your committee for the excellent job you've done in hosting and chairing these sessions. I think it's done exactly what we hoped it would do. It has built on the work we started in

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. I think this is pretty basic stuff. My concern is that data is being shared between the two platforms. Again, in a question asked in The New York Times investigation, it said there were preferential data reciprocity agreements between Amazon, between Microsoft and Faceboo

Information & Ethics committee  I don't know whether that means you don't know what to say or you don't know. Either way, if you could write to us, we'd be grateful.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. I will start with Mr. Ryland and Amazon. Following on from the chair's comments about Facebook, if I connect my Amazon account to Facebook, what data am I sharing between the two platforms?

Information & Ethics committee  You're saying you can't do it. You can't connect your Facebook and Amazon accounts.

Information & Ethics committee  There was the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee in London, which I chaired with my colleagues here. We published some documents in December of last year that were relevant to the Six4Three case. At the same time, there was also an investigation by The New York Times t

Information & Ethics committee  It was a quite major story in The New York Times last year. I'm amazed that you were not briefed on it. I'll ask the same question of Microsoft as well. You can log into Skype with your Facebook account. Again, if you're connecting your Skype and your Facebook accounts, what

Information & Ethics committee  What type of data is shared between the different accounts? For users who do that, what type of data about their Skype usage is shared with Facebook?

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, but all these Facebook log-ins have data reciprocity agreements built into them as well. The question is whether—

Information & Ethics committee  I know the way the basic log-in works, but these log-in arrangements with Facebook give reciprocal access to data between the two. There's actual connecting, effectively.

Information & Ethics committee  Then it's in the terms and conditions.

Information & Ethics committee  In layman's terms, would Facebook know who I was engaging with on Skype?

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. I'll just go back to Amazon. I want to quickly get this out. Under “How do I connect my Facebook account to Amazon?”, Amazon.com says: From Settings, tap My Accounts, and then tap Connect your social networks. Tap Connect Your Facebook Account. Enter your log-in

Information & Ethics committee  It would seem that all of their commands to Alexa that are triggered by the wake word are being retained by the company in the cloud. Do you think your users are aware of that?

Information & Ethics committee  I don't remember reading that anywhere. Maybe it's in the huge sort of War and Peace-like terms and conditions that are attached to the device. I think that although it may be the same as using any other kind of search function, the fact is that he was talking to a computer, an