So if that was the technology that defined the last election, what kind of technology will define the 2020 election?

Well, I've been asking political operatives here in Washington.

That question on one thing that keeps coming up is an area of interest is so called relational organizing.

This is the idea that campaigns will use their own activist lists off friends and family members and get them to get their message out that way.

That, of course, is not a new idea.

But in the era of the smartphone campaign to getting much more sophisticated about the ways in which they can target your family friends.

Several Democratic candidates have developed apse, which they're activists can download.

Those acts will then with the activist permission great all of the contacts from that person's phone and compare those contacts with its own list off people who might vote for that candidate if it finds a match between those two lists.

It's suggested that activists that it sends a message to the member of their family or a friend who might think of voting for the candidate on.

In fact, they have so much data on those people they can suggest individually tailored messages designed specifically to hit that particular persons preferences or views.

Now the campaigns themselves stress that all this is being done with their activists expressed permission.

But if you get a text from a friend or family member or a colleague or acquaintance during this campaign urging you to vote one candidate or another very mind, that candidate's campaign might know more about the new realize.

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Each week, I try and answer a different question from a viewer from a previous block.

C H F G B P Asked a question about the Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei on, Essentially wanted to know what has happened to the lawsuits that were filed against the company by the U.

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Department of Justice.

Now I think that what ch GBP is referring thio other cases against war away for violating U.

S sanctions against Iran and stealing technology from T Mobile on The answer, I'm afraid, is that not a lot has happened.

We did have a ruling this week in the case, which was that the court ruled that the lead while way lawyer on the case, James Cole, had a conflict of interest because he had previously worked for the Department of Justice and so couldn't remain on the case.

But one year after these charges were filed, I was still at this state where both sides are arguing about who, exactly, can argue the case on their behalf.

The wheels of justice turn slowly on, particularly so in a case of this complex.

There's this thank you very much for that question, and if you have a question on this topic or any other, please leave it in the comments below.