Information & Ethics committee  I'm happy to take that question. I had mentioned earlier that the investigation that took place with the Irish Data Protection Commission centred around settings that were public and that we had changed before the investigation was commenced. We think we've addressed those issue

Information & Ethics committee  They are the measures that we discussed. We make the accounts of users who are under 16 private by default. We disable direct messaging for that universe of users. We impose a 60-minute time limit on the use of TikTok, which is a daily time limit, and we limit live streaming to o

Information & Ethics committee  There are certain data elements which, if any company requests them from users, they will need to obtain consent from them. That's more sensitive information like contact lists or precise location information, which we do not ask for, unlike most of our competitors. We've made de

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for that question. I believe the question you asked before was about storage. We do have a provision in our privacy policy that talks about sharing within our corporate group. There are functions that are performed by other aspects of our corporate family, maybe for so

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. There are instances where other—

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not an expert in Chinese law, but what I can speak to—

Information & Ethics committee  The Chinese government has not asserted any rights over TikTok's user data.

Information & Ethics committee  The parent company has subsidiaries that are in all parts of the world. Those parts of the world where there aren't Chinese users may have jurisdictional arguments that the Chinese law doesn't apply. I'm not going to opine on the application of Chinese law in each of those subsid

Information & Ethics committee  We do not sell information—

Information & Ethics committee  With third parties, we do, as described in our privacy policy.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm happy to answer that question. It is true that we do not collect precise location information about our users. We do collect approximate location, often based on the user's IP address. What we can do is identify that someone may be in a particular province or city, but we wo

Information & Ethics committee  They have access just for the purpose of understanding, for example, how their advertising campaigns worked and whether they were successful: how many app downloads or installs occurred, how many people looked at an ad or how many people may have purchased a good. That's the type

Information & Ethics committee  We're eager to address those concerns. We think the protocols that we've developed respond directly to the theoretical concerns that the U.S. government has raised.

Information & Ethics committee  The policies vis-à-vis teenagers are in place for all our users.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for that question. I'd emphasize that it is a theoretical concern that's been raised. We've been pretty clear categorically, sir, that we would not disclose user data to the Chinese government if we were requested to do so.