Hearing from Colin McKay of @Google & Jim Balsillie with Council of CDN Innovators regarding the use of personal info. Committee members are exploring how Google manages the data it collects, questioning McKay on the company's ability to track users' locations and broader issues of government oversight. The Google executive rejected claims from Balsillie and MPs that Google sells users' personal information and denounced Balsillie's recommendations as overly prescriptive. But you're talking about data now, and data can be moved very quickly." While the U.K. government has managed to secure data from Cambridge Analytica, Denham said that, in a digital world, information could be erased in the time that it takes to secure a warrant.

Source: CBC News May 10, 2018 13:15 UTC