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.

To avoid heavy fines and lawsuits for breaching the bloc’s strict privacy laws, the majority of U.K. companies that rely on data flows from the EU must submit a mountain of compliance paperwork.

Twitter is calling this activity "an error" and didn’t say how many users may have seen ads because of it.

One of Europe’s most powerful tech regulators is expected to ace an interview for a job that will equip her with greater weaponry to take on the Silicon Valley giants that already fear her. Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s antitrust chief...

European Union rules require people to actively choose to allow companies to install tracking cookies, judges said in another key ruling on privacy from the EU’s top court.

There’s a conflict here. Technology that was created to promote cooperation between strangers is now being used to control them.