Digitalization has changed society. While data is becoming the „new oil“, data protection is becoming the new „pollution control“. Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Justice, is in charge to design the new data protection law and to maneuver it through the legislative bodies of the EU. Lobbyists get alarmed when the 30-year-old Jan Philipp Albrecht, specialized in net politics and civil rights, becomes the chief negotiator. An inside view into lawmaking on EU level. The story of how a group of politicians tries to protect today’s society against the impact of Big Data and mass surveillance.