Hello, welcome to another MLEX podcast. Great to have your company again. My name's James Panicki. I'm Mlex's

Australasian managing editor and I'm coming to you from our offices in Melbourne, Australia.

A couple of weeks ago we previewed the IAPP Global Summit in Washington with our colleague Mike Swift.

On that occasion we suggested that the GDPR would dominate discussions.

The GDPR, of course, is the General Data Protection Regulation, the EU's new data protection

and privacy rules, which are having an impact well beyond the 28 member states of the European Union.

But was that forecast right?

Bear in mind, of course, that we said all of that before the Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal had broken.

So I'm going to put that very question to the two M-nex journalists who were in Washington, Vesla

Gladiqiva, and Amy Miller, who joined me now respectively from London and San Francisco.

Hello to both of you.

Hi, James.

Hi, James.

Amy, let's start from you. What did you see as the big

theme of this conference? Well, the big theme of the conference was, of course, cross-border

data transfers. But on the U.S. side, they had a lot of issues that they were covering.

Biometric technology, what's happening with U.S. states when it comes to privacy.

They were discussing the likelihood of data security legislation being passed.

But there were a lot of asides and repeated mentions to Cambridge Analytica and Facebook's woes as a result.

And one of the more popular speakers, not surprisingly, was Facebook's deputy chief privacy officer,

Rob Sherman, who talked about what happened.

Vesler, in just a couple of words, what were the big themes for you?

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