Hi there, welcome back to Mlex's weekly podcast covering the most pressing regulatory issues around the globe.

I'm James Panicki, Asia Pacific Senior Editor, and it's great to be with you again.

And wherever you may be listening to this podcast, you'd be only too aware that there's an election campaign underway at the moment.

As the US gears up for a crucial presidential vote in November, our team of reporters in the US has been doing exactly what you would expect,

trying to assess what the future may hold in terms of antitrust and privacy regulation.

And the key development of recent weeks has been the announcement

that Carmelah Harris would be Joe Biden's running mate,

so Senator Harris is now the Democratic vice presidential nominee.

The nomination immediately caught our

attention because of Harris's time in public office in the state of California, which is, of course,

home to some of the country's largest tech companies. Unlike other potential vice-presidential

nominees, Harris has had to grapple with the regulation of Silicon Valley

and has also had to deal with the reality of having these companies as her constituents.

Mnex's digital team published a fine piece of analysis looking into Harris's history of tech

regulation and you can find a link to that piece at our web page.

Among those who contributed to that article are Amy Miller, our senior correspondent on

Data Privacy and Security, based in San Francisco, and Max Philean, an Mlex antitrust correspondent

in Washington, D.C. And both of them join me now.

Max, let's start with you.

What exactly is Kamala Harris' history with antitrust enforcement?

So Kamala Harris has a decent amount of antitrust experience stemming from her time as

California's Attorney General from 2010 to 2016 when she ran for the U.S.

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