Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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If the Acting Chairman will bear with me, I will complete my questions. The answers to the questions I have just asked can be "Yes" or "No". Why does the default setting allow for maximum exposure sharing? Why not make each setting a choice before a profile is functional? Why do privacy settings continue to focus on what friends can and cannot see? I go back to what Ms Sweeney said. When are we going to treat advertising settings as privacy settings so that there is that level of protection across all areas? Will Facebook stop creating shadow profiles of people who have not registered a Facebook account and who have never given their consent to being tracked?

Why did Facebook not contact the Irish Data Protection Commissioner in 2015 when it became aware of the controversy regarding Cambridge Analytica and the breach of data, given that it had been a point of real contention between Facebook and the Commissioner? Section 702 of FISA was recently reauthorised. In its referral to the Court of Justice of the European Union, the High Court stated as a factual finding that mass surveillance by US authorities continues to take place. Is Facebook preparing for a situation where the EU-US privacy shield is declared invalid? Does it agree that a stable solution will have to involve changes in US law?

Facebook has voluntary agreements with Swedish intelligence services to share data. How does it reconcile that with the GDPR? Is Facebook sharing or has it shared user data with any other intelligence service, including UK intelligence services, in relation to the question I asked Ms Dixon earlier?