Information & Ethics committee  My understanding is that Project Maven did not go ahead. What I would say is that, since that time, we have developed these AI principles, which specifically have undertakings that we are not pursuing—weapons or other technologies for that principal purpose and technologies for specific harm.

Information & Ethics committee  Similar to what has already been spoken about, we've also been tracking “Spamouflage Dragon”, also known as “Dragonbridge”. As has been pointed out, it's important to realize that many of these campaigns may be high in volume but very low in actual effects because of all the efforts to shut them down.

Information & Ethics committee  I can take that question. My team tracks very closely foreign interference operations. As I said, we are transparent about what we do detect. We have not detected any interference in Canadian elections on our platform as part of our investigations over the last number of years.

Information & Ethics committee  We are aware of Senator Wyden's letter and [Inaudible—Editor]. This was from.... I am not aware of the specifics, and the specifics were not provided with regard to his anonymous source. I would say that anything provided here would fall under the same policies I just spoke about in terms of it needing to be under lawful requests coming from a legal process, which we would assess closely.

Information & Ethics committee  Certainly. We publish our transparency reports on government requests about lawful data access, which Jeanette spoke to in her opening statement. We assess each request under both the U.S. law and the local law and also under international norms. We assess each one and provide data, and then we have transparency reports.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Chair and members of the committee. As Jeanette mentioned, I'm the director of Google's threat analysis group, or TAG. While I'm personally based in Australia, we are a global team, a significant part of which is based in Google's Montreal office, which I'm sure this committee well knows is a growing hub of cybersecurity talent and expertise.