Information & Ethics committee  John, could I return to transfer of data within Microsoft? You mentioned that Microsoft has acquired a number of companies. LinkedIn, which you mentioned, was one of them. Can you just be clear? If I give information to LinkedIn, within the Microsoft organization is it then trans

Information & Ethics committee  You're saying there is a wall around the information that is collected by LinkedIn and it's not transferred within the Microsoft organization.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm interested in the default position. If I join LinkedIn and I don't go through the terms and conditions and I give information to LinkedIn, does it get transferred or is it capable of being transferred to other businesses within the Microsoft family, as you guys like to call i

Information & Ethics committee  As a general rule regarding the separate businesses within the Microsoft organization, is the information transferred generally?

Information & Ethics committee  If I can pick up on what Mr. Collins was asking, I was intrigued about both the phone for Apple and the Alexa device. Have there been any attempts to hack into the systems you have and access the information you retain?

Information & Ethics committee  Has there ever been a successful hack into the system with respect to a particular individual?

Information & Ethics committee  It occurs to me, going back to Mr. Erskine-Smith's point, that when I joined Facebook I didn't consent to agree to be targeted by political advertising from anywhere. I didn't know that was part of the deal. It's not why people join Facebook. It seems to me that we've managed,

Information & Ethics committee  Right. It's the position of the United States, but—

Information & Ethics committee  That's exactly what's happening in terms of paid-for advertising at the moment. The other issue—

Information & Ethics committee  Very quickly, I'll pick up on an issue that Jens mentioned. He talked about trolls. Closed groups are also a massive problem, in that we do not have the information, and I think we need to concentrate more on that as an issue, too.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was very struck by something that Jim Balsillie said this morning. He said that the online business model of the platforms “subverts choice”, and choice is what democracy is essentially about. It occurred to me—you might find this quite amusing—that in

Information & Ethics committee  That's in the United States?

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. If I can talk to you, Mr. Cannataci, is the use of political advertising through broadcasting worldwide nowadays? Are there jurisdictions where broadcast advertisements are not accepted?

Information & Ethics committee  That means information is shared between Instagram and Facebook.

Information & Ethics committee  Finally, to all the platforms, if you were legally responsible for the content of your platforms, would you be able to function as businesses?