Information & Ethics committee  Chair, before you hand it to Ms. Stevens, I must apologize; we need to catch a flight. I would just thank the committee for the engagement over the last few days.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much.

Information & Ethics committee  You're saying it's the likes of Apache and the open-source foundations and those sorts of guidelines. We're merging open standards, and I suppose they're being embraced to an extent, or maybe they were pre-GDPR-type community concepts, but they're pretty much across the board now

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, okay. That's very good. Thank you. Thank you, Chair.

Information & Ethics committee  I have a question about data portability and the GDPR principle. It struck me as an issue. In terms of big data, it's where it sits, how it's housed and what form it's kept in, etc. Is that something you embrace? Do you want to hold proprietary data, so that it's exclusive to y

Information & Ethics committee  Microsoft has advanced on that. I know at one stage there was an alleged issue at Microsoft in terms of proprietary formats, but I know now there's always an option to “save as” in a more open format. Is that where you've gone with that?

Information & Ethics committee  It's a very interesting area, and it continues to be challenging. There's a usability trade-off versus security. I remember an IT security manager in a large corporation telling me about a policy he implemented before there were password managers, going back maybe a decade. He

Information & Ethics committee  That's the one, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  That's good.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, it's very hard to get back in when you're out, because I've had that experience.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. Going back to security and data privacy and encryption, I think Apple talked about the Key Store on the iPhone and iPad, and Mozilla, I think, also has a Key Store-type feature in the browser. One of the challenges of security is that our passwords, I think, have bec

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Chair. To Amazon, first of all, Is Alexa listening? I guess it is. What's it doing with that information?

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. Is that information used by Amazon for profiling and/or marketing?