Welcome back. It's great to see you again. This is M-Lex's weekly podcast covering the top stories in

regulatory affairs with the help of our team of reporters around the globe. My name is James Panicki

from Emlex's Asia Pacific team and we've got a strong lineup of stories for you today. In the second

part of the podcast, we'll stray a little from our usual policy beats to touch on the European

Union's attempts to standardise charges for mobile and other devices.

That's right, if you have a drawer full of charges for old phones that have long given up the ghost,

and if you often wonder why it is that all mobile device makers don't use the same connections for their charges,

this may be one for you.

Spoiler alert, though, the EU legislation is facing significant pushback, especially from Apple.

Nicholas Wallace will join us in just under 10 minutes from now.

First up, though, to Silicon Valley, where Google's announcement that it will gradually change the access to personal data available to apps on its Android platform has got people talking.

And sure, any company wanting to empower consumers to have a greater say on how their data

are used will no doubt receive praise from some quarters. But there's

more to this move than meets the eye, especially in the light of a similar yet different move

by Apple in relation to its own app store. Mike Swift is Mlex's Global Digital Risk Correspondent,

and he joins us now from our offices in

San Francisco. And Mike, firstly, what is Google doing with what has been called privacy sandbox on

Android, and why is it doing it? So essentially they're saying that the old way of collecting

people's personal information and using that

to target advertising is going to have to change.

They've already done this on the Chrome browser for desktop in saying that they're

going to do away with tracking cookies.

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