Lawmakers made it clear that they are skeptical that Facebook should be trusted with the tremendous power it has amassed over 2.7 billion global users.

The software can scan footage including from closed-circuit television to automatically match faces and license plates to a police database and pick out suspects in a crowd.

The breach was done by “exploiting a vulnerability of one of our server providers, which hadn’t been disclosed to us,” according to the company’s statement.

Facebook said the “coordinated inauthentic behavior” took aim at the U.S., North Africa and Latin America and included “proactive work ahead of the U.S. elections.”

U.S. lawmakers from both parties slammed Apple Inc. and Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook on Friday for “censorship of apps” at the “behest of the Chinese government.”

Technology companies that control their own ecosystem can become their own private watchdogs, raising questions about whether they play fair, said Margrethe Vestager, the EU's incoming digital affairs czar.

The star attraction of this product line is its wide-angle video camera, which can automatically follow a person and zoom in on them as they move around a room during a chat.

In some cases, Tencent, a Chinese internet conglomerate with government ties, could have access to data such as a user’s location.

The NSA wanted to show off its Cybersecurity Directorate, a newly minted organization that began operations this month to protect the U.S. against emerging cyber threats.

While AI algorithms are getting better at teaching themselves, Amazon—like many companies—deploys human trainers across its businesses. Some were annotating about 150 video recordings per day.