7 people who'll likely drive the Biden administration's tech policy

Here are the names you'll hear a lot as Biden builds out his tech policy apparatus at the Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission:

1. Karl Racine, Federal Trade Commission
2. Alvaro Bedoya is being considered for a FTC commissioner slot. He's the founding director of the Center for Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law School and an expert on data collection and surveillance.
3. Jon Sallet is a candidate to lead the antitrust division at the Department of Justice, where he previously was the deputy assistant attorney general for litigation.
4. Jonathan Kanter, a longtime antitrust lawyer known for promoting aggressive enforcement, is in the running to head up the Department of Justice's antitrust division.
5. Gigi Sohn previously advised former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler and has strong ties to public interest groups as a co-founder and former CEO of Public Knowledge.
6. Edward "Smitty" Smith, the former adviser to Wheeler, served in the Biden transition as part of the FCC review team.
7. Anna Gomez, the Wiley Rein attorney and former Commerce Department official, was part of the Biden transition's Commerce review team. Gomez is seen as a contender for a commissioner position with the FCC.