Antitrust and cybersecurity will be Biden’s tech focus

Significance

Although technology issues have never much interested President-elect Joe Biden, his administration faces rising pressure to tackle these issues and others from 5G to climate and the out-going administration's efforts to decouple the US and Chinese technology sectors.

Impacts

• Progressive Democrats will push Biden to align his moderate pro-tech-industry views, such as they are, with their more activist approach.
• Biden's appointment of a dozen or more former tech company executives to senior roles will ensure that the industry's voice will be heard.
• Like Trump, Biden will support US big tech's opposition to transnational digital taxes and privacy regulation.