Information & Ethics committee  Don't you think it would make a substantial impact on the approach that Facebook has been taking?

Information & Ethics committee  What concerns me is that you're presenting yourselves as the good guys, but you're facilitating the bad guys through the use of your hardware.

Information & Ethics committee  But you still want to do business with the bad guys.

Information & Ethics committee  Is the information transferred between the separate businesses?

Information & Ethics committee  I just asked a very specific question. Is the policy of the Microsoft organization to allow transfer of personal data between separate businesses owned by Microsoft?

Information & Ethics committee  Can I have a yes or no?

Information & Ethics committee  It's a question to which either yes or no is the answer.

Information & Ethics committee  Right, okay. That's not very helpful. Could you come back to me on that question?

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. Erik, I have in front of me two very impressive Apple devices, although my techie colleagues tell me that my iPhone is really very old. The issue I have is that people access, for example, Facebook, very much through Apple, through the hardware that you provide. Yo

Information & Ethics committee  My point is that you set out the principles. The chairman set them out, and it's really complex and difficult for us to legislate on these issues, as we're all discovering. You can do business with Facebook or not. You could disallow access to Facebook through your hardware if y

Information & Ethics committee  Well, it's a fact that so many people access Facebook through your devices.

Information & Ethics committee  It's not imposing; it's about agreement. If you believe in your principles and you're an ethical company, then you should deal with people who abide by your principles. That's within your power.

Information & Ethics committee  What you could do is not do business with Facebook. You could choose an approach whereby you set out your principles and you apply them in dealing with who you want. Why don't you do that?

Information & Ethics committee  You really don't?

Information & Ethics committee  Do you think you'd get a bit of a headline?