 Thank you. The gentleman's time has expired. I now recognize the general from Florida. Ms. Demings for five minutes Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. And let me just say just for the record. I'm a Democrat from Florida and I've had Heard complaints about my emails going into spam as well And I'm sure other Democratic members have had the same experiences Unfortunately, Mr. Pekai in 2007 Google Purchase double-click the leading provider of certain advertising tools Is that correct? That's correct Congresswoman when Congress when Google Purchase of proposed the merger alarm bells were raised about the access to data Google would have specifically the ability to connect a user's personal identity with their browsing activity Google However committed to Congress and to the antitrust enforces that the deal would not reduce user privacy Google chief legal advisor testified before the Senate antitrust subcommittee that Google wouldn't be able to merge this data Even if it wanted to given contractual restrictions, but in June of 2016 Google went ahead and merged this data. Anyway, effectively destroying anonymity on the internet. Mr. Pekai, you became CEO in of Google in 2015. Is that correct? That's right. Okay, and this change was made in 2016. Is that correct? That's my understanding. Okay. Thank you for that Did you sign off on this decision to combine the sets of data with Google that Google had told Congress would be kept separate? Congresswoman any any changes we made Mr. Pekai with all due respect, please did you sign off on the decision or not? I Reviewed at a high level all important decisions We may be deeply care about privacy and security of our users. So you signed off on the use of consent for Okay, okay, you signed off on the decision practically this decision meant that your company would not combine all of Would now combine for example all of my data on Google my search history my location from Google Maps Information from my emails from Gmail as well as my personal identity with the record of almost all of the websites I visited that is absolutely staggering According to an email from a double-click executive That was exactly the type of reduction in user privacy that Google's founders had previously Were it would lead to a backlash and I quote they were Unwavering on the policy due to philosophical reasons, which is Larry and Sergey's Fundamentally not wanting users associated with the cross site cookie They were also worried about a privacy storm as well as damage to Google's brand So in 2007 Google's founders feared making this change because they knew it would upset their users, but in 2016 Google didn't seem to care Mr. Pekai. Isn't it true that what changed between 2007 and 2016 is that Google gained enormous market power So while Google had to care about user privacy in 2007 it no longer had to in 2016 would you agree that what change was Google gained enormous market power Congresswoman there's an important issue if I could explain Well, you know we today make it very easy for users to be in control of their data We have simplified their settings. They can turn ads personalization on or off We have combined most of activity settings into three groupings We remind users to go to a privacy checkup one billion users of time. So I thank you so much for that I am concerned that Google's bait and switch with double-click is part of a broader pattern where Google buys up companies For the purposes of surveilling Americans and because of Google Google's dominance users have no choice but to surrender in 2019 Google made over 80 percent of its total revenue through selling a ad placement. Is that correct? Mr. Pekai Yeah, okay, and because Google sells behavioral ads ads targeted to each of us as individuals the more user data That Google collects the more money Google can make more user data means more money. Is that correct? In in general, that's not true. For example, we're using data Not the more money I'm sorry, please So you're saying that the more user data it does not mean the more money that Google can collect Congresswoman most of the data today we collect is to help users And provide personalized experiences back. Thank you. Thank you so much. Mr. Pekai. Mr. Chairman. I yield back