BY RYAN HEATH, LAURENS CERULUS, JOANNA PLUCINSKA AND MARK SCOTT KEY TO THE MATRIX Cambridge
Analytica LEAST PREPARED Smaller European data protection data protection Equifax authorities Data brokers U.K. homesecretary Sajid Javid marketers Online Chinese governmentChinese Indian government U.S. commerce secretary Wilbur Ross Uber U.S. attorney general Korean government Yahoo Jeff Sessions REGULATOR Supreme Court Protection Board Protection Japanese government European Data Indian Trade Commission U.S. Federal U.K. HighCourt Angela Merkel Emmanuel Macron Power Matrix Power Andrea Jelinek Austria andEurope’s Tencent
chief regulator POLITICIAN/GOVERNMENT Alibaba
Xavier Bettel lead tech MEP Axel Voss Center-right e-Privacy rapporteur LEAST INFLUENTIAL MOST INFLUENTIAL Birgit Sippel Falque-Pierrotin French chiefregulator Irish chiefregulator Helen Dixon Isabelle Elizabeth Denham Elizabeth Liberal leadprivacy MEP Sophie in ’t VeldSophie in’t British chiefregulator Leo Varadkar German DPA Court ofJusticeCourt companies companies European Telecoms Digital Europe Cloud Alexander Hanff NGO/ACTIVIST Privacy activist Irish HighCourt The Software state court Hamburg Alliance BSA Margrethe Margrethe Vestager European Consumer European Commission Association Paul Nemitz BEUC Former director, technology firms technology Regulatory BUSINESS Big banks Digital Rights Max Schrems Ireland Privacy activist Amazon Apple Norwegian consumer Norwegian
Finn Myrstad Digital Rights European rights activist La Quadrature
du Net IBM European Commission for dataprotection, Olivier Micol Microsoft Facebook
Head of unit
COURTS/LEGAL SYSTEM Association ofPrivacy Jan PhilippAlbrecht Professionals International international dataproject, Bruno Gencarelli
Jourová’s chief Cabinet European Commission Renate Nikolay GDPR rapporteur Head of unit for Google Selmayr lead privacy lawyer Martin Martin Hogan Lovells’ Eduardo Jourová Ustaran Věra
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