Professor, in our country we have about the population of California spread out over the area of the second largest country in the world. Most of our population lives within a stone's throw of the U.S. border. We're not like the Europeans where they can establish separate, complete standards because they have such a large population. We are very interdependent with the U.S. on trade, on everything. They're like our cousin, so it's usually a pretty good relationship.
In terms of our establishing an innovative economy, we've talked a lot here about data sovereignty and its importance, yet we are now getting more and more politically tied in with the big data-opolies.
In terms of the power to utilize data to drive an innovation economy, how important is it to limit that relationship with the data-opolies?