Welcome back. This is Emlex's weekly podcast covering the very best and latest in the world of regulatory affairs with the assistance of our team of reporters around the world.

My name is James Panicki. I'm Emlix's senior editor in the Asia Pacific region and it's great to be back in your feed again this week.

We have a couple of interesting stories for you today, starting with this basic question.

Why are health insurers so keen to get their hands on fitness data

generated by your smart watch? Australia is pondering this issue at the moment, although

health insurers in the country aren't legally allowed to discriminate against anyone requesting

a policy, they are allowed to offer discounts to those who demonstrate that

they're leading healthy lifestyles. Fine, but does offering discounts to the Fitbit Virtuous

ultimately lead to discrimination against those who don't want to hand over their fitness data?

It's a great yarn and Laurel Henning will be joining us from Sydney to walk us through it.

First up though to Malaysia where competition enforcers are examining ways of strengthening

leniency provisions. What are leniency provisions? I hear you ask. Well, in the view of most

enforcers, leniency or even immunity deals are an important means by which to coax whistleblowers

into the open to reveal cartel or anti-competitive arrangements with the assurance that they

will receive favourable treatments. Now, Malaysia has had such provisions in place for eight years now,

but they have never been used successfully. That fact, in turn,

has sparked a conversation about how the provisions should be changed and there are now plans in

place. Jetemazo Santos is our Southeast Asia correspondent speaking to me from Jakarta,

but recently returned from a trip to Malaysia where she examined the debate

about the leniency policies.

Ajit, firstly, maybe describe to us Malaysia's leniency program as it stands and also

tell us something about the regulator's experience with it so far.

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