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This has been a change that i couldn't have anticipated. well, you had an early skirmish which maybe became a battle when, in 2017, you launched an investigation into use of personal information and political influence. the scale of your investigation was completely unprecedented for a data protection authority anywhere in the world. one element of your investigation, a big element, was the eu referendum. can you just remind us what your conclusion was on that specifically? we were looking at more than 30 organisations that were part of data—enabled political campaigning, so that's why it wa...

And the lobbying power that comes with it, because these companies have added trillions of dollars in their power and they spend some of that money trying to stop, through lobbying, people like you from regulating them. the other thing that i've learned in this job is that big tech not only has lobbying power, but they also have really deep pockets. so when it comes to litigating, and these companies are definitely willing to litigate against public authorities like my office, deep pockets means that there's an inequity of arms when we're tackling these big companies. so, i mean, just the acce...