joining us is victoria espinel with bsa the software alliance, it was written in the washington post recently that europe is now the most powerful regulator of silicon valley. do you agree? >> i think europe is certainly the first major market to have a jurisdiction wide privacy law and that is important but with the privacy regulation is positive but i think looking beyond europe for a moment what is really important is we get to a harmonized standard that is what we would talk about today globalize standard that it is an important step and there are important conversations happening in other places of the world and really that is what we need to get to with the international consensus on privacy. >>host: the same opening question nuala o'connor europe is the most powerful regulator in silicon valley? >> with the data yes but it has been. if anybody is surprised they haven't been paying attention because positive or negative depending on your viewpoint is a logical extraction from the 1990s and 80s it is formalizing what europe has been doing on privacy and meeting frankly the globa

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joining us on the program, the president and ceo of bsa, the software alliance.lso the president of the center for democracy and technology. >> we all need to think of our data custodian spots ability. in the digital age, every tech company is the data company. people are using and amalgamating data about individuals. i think this law speaks to the rights of the individual and his or her data and that that person has ongoing rights, even when the data is used legitimately by good corporate actors. that is a conversation everyone needs to have. infante want all of the -- innovation that the united states is so good at, if we want that to move forward in a positive way, we need to have the right roles and legal underpinnings under that. watch the communicators monday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span two. "washington journal" continues. host: a discussion on medicare for all. emily gee serves as a health economist. charles blahous from george mason university.he is their senior research strategy . to both of you, thanks for joining us. let's set up a definition, even