Washington’s tech policy players widely anticipate President Joe Biden will urge Congress to tighten regulations on the industry during his upcoming State of the Union address on Thursday evening.
“It’s now part of his core messaging, and so I think he will raise it again as he has in the past,” said Lartease Tiffith, executive vice president for public policy at the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
But lawmakers, policy officials, and industry groups have a wish list of shoutouts—from supporting a federal privacy standard to promoting artificial intelligence—that they hope Biden will deliver during his high-stakes speech.
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