Hello there, welcome back. It's great to be with you again. My name is James Panicki. This is Mlex's weekly

podcast covering the top regulatory stories of the moment with the assistance of our reporters around the globe.

And so much to get through today.

In just over 10 minutes time, our London-based reporter Jakub Krupa will be with us to walk

us through some of the challenges posed by connected cars.

How should the data that they generate be collected and handled?

How should we manage artificial intelligence

used to power self-driving vehicles? What service stations need to be put in place to charge

electric vehicles? And if you think these are all questions we can leave in the too hard basket

for another 20 years, well, think again. These are decisions that have to be made and are being made right now.

Jacob will bring his usual wit and erudition to the conversation a bit later on.

First up, though, Apple's decision to go after images of child sexual exploitation contained on iPhones

may not sound particularly controversial. In fact, what's not like about

the fight against child abuse? But the tech company has had to row back its decision, at least for

now, amid concerns that delving into the contents of people's phones may be a privacy, slippery

slope. It's an unusual story, but one that goes to the heart of Apple's

hard-won reputation as being a staunch defender of privacy. Dave Pereira covers technology

from our offices in Washington, D.C. He has written a great piece of analysis on Apple's

very public struggle with this issue, and that piece of analysis is

indeed already available at our website. And Dave joins us right now. So, I mean, this is an unusual

position for Apple to be in, right? Because, I mean, it's positioned itself as the privacy-friendly

Silicon Valley giant.

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