How Will Tech Policy Change In The Biden White House? Here's What You Need To Know

Like the man he's set to replace, President-elect Joe Biden doesn't plan to play nice with Silicon Valley. He has promised to go hard on Big Tech, both taking Facebook to task for not doing enough to curb disinformation and backing the repeal of a law that has long protected the technology industry.

"The era of permissionless innovation is over," said Darrell West, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who studies tech policy. "There's going to be more public engagement, more public oversight and public regulation of the technology sector."

President Barack Obama pushed policies embraced by the tech industry, but West said Biden will not follow that path.

"Biden will be tougher on the tech sector than Obama was because the party has moved to the left on tech policy," he said.

Here are some of the biggest tech issues the Biden administration will start confronting in January.

U.S. v. Google

President Trump's Justice Department against Google just weeks before the presidential election. The timing led some to question whether the move was made