Security News > 2020 > January > Top 10 tech policy trends to watch in 2020

Given the tech industry's poor track record of protecting users data and controlling its environmental impact, regulators around the globe are stepping into the void.

The policy issues run the gamut from spectrum sharing to data and privacy to the greening of the telecom industry as a whole.

While all of the issues listed in the Top 1o will not see significant movement in 2020 due to events like the upcoming presidential election in the US, most are representative of the long-term trend towards a more heavily regulated tech industry, said Dion Hinchcliffe, a vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research.

According to Liz Miller, also a vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research, given the lack of trust between tech providers and their customers, none of this should come as a major surprise to tech industry leaders.

According to Access Partnership they will take a three-pronged approach: Regulating "Big tech" in order to control it; reassessing the EU's reliance on non-EU developed tech for critical services; and greater control over personal data.

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