Name: Google CEO Sundar Pichai Gets Grilled on Data Privacy
Uploaded: 2018-12-11
Duration: 4 min 34 s
Description: He testified in front of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.

[ MUSIC ] Protectin the privacy and security of our uses has long been an essential part of formation. We've invested an enormous amount of work over the years to bring choice, transparency, and control to our users. These values are built into every product we make. Mister Pichai is it true that the Android operating system send Google information every few minutes? You telling the exact location of a smartphone within a few feet the speed of movement of the phone, the altitude of the phone sufficient to determine what floor of a building the phone is on, the temperatures surrounding the phone, and other readings and if so with Americans carrying their phones with them virtually at all times doesn't the collection of this volume of. Detailed information really mean that Google is compiling information about virtually every movement an individual with a smartphone is making every hour of every day. Mister chairman, thank you for the question. Today, for any service we provide our users We go to great lengths to protect our privacy and we give them transparency, choice, and control. Android is a powerful platform and provides smartphone for over two billion people and as part of that, it depends on the applications users choose to use If you're using a fitness application which is detecting the number of steps you walked, you expect it to send that information. But it's a choice users make. We make it clear and it depends on the used cases. The chairman asked about location policies in your android System, and you pointed to various apps that might provide information. Let's say I got an Android phone, but unlike most people, I don't have a single app on that phone. What information would be collected? Congresswoman there is a device specific location setting which you can turn on or off. Say I turn it off. Turn it off, there's no location information sent from that device. Okay. But This is a complex area, there are times, for example, your IP address may include some location information. Correct. It's an area we are committed to do more to make it easier. I have an iPhone. And, if I move from here and go over there to sit with my Democrat friend, which would make him really nervous, does Google track my movement? Does Google, through this phone, know that I have moved here and moved over to the left? [ BLANK_AUDIO ] It's either yes or no. Not by default, there may be a Google service which you've opted in Then to use and if So Google knows that I am moving over there. It's not a tricky question. You know you make a $ 100 million a year. You ought to be able to answer that question. I wanna go through several questions, because it has been discussed a lot by what you collect and what you don't collect. So the next few questions will be yes no question, they're not, I'm not trying to trick you here, is simply what do you collect? And how do you collect it? Okay? In dealing with Google, do you or do you not collect identifiers like name, age, and address, yes or no? If you're creating an account, yes, and using an account, yes. Specific search history when person types something into a search bar. If you have search history turned on, yes. Device identifiers like IP address or IMEI? Depending on the situation we could be collecting it, yes. GPS signals, wifi signals, Bluetooth beacons? Would depend on the specifics, but there may be situations, yes. GPS? Yes, if you- The voice in conversations when using Google voice products? We give an option to turn on or off and do it. If a person didn't know what voice in conversations when using Google Voice products the only record when they initiated with OK Google and then say the terms after contents of emails and Google Documents. We stored the data, but we don't read or look at your Gmail web access to, As a company, we have access to them. Yes. So you could. Saying you don't, I'm not asking do you or don't. I'm saying you could though, there is a possibility. We have clear, established policies on how we would do the data. And your privacy policy, speaking of that, has changed 28 times including eight times since January 2016. So, I think the policies and this is why I'm asking these questions.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai Gets Grilled on Data Privacy

He testified in front of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.