Two powerful senators have asked executives at Google and Amazon to rethink their decisions to end the use of domain fronting on their cloud networks to help protect at-risk users.
Microsoft President Brad Smith is asking Congress to step in and regulate the use of facial recognition technology to help prevent abuse.
A case before the Illinois Supreme Court is looking like a key test of how companies are allowed to collect and use consumers' biometric information.
Facebook said in a long response to lawmakers that it had so-called integration partnerships with 52 companies, but it has ended most of them already.
The new privacy bill in California allows consumers to control what data companies collect from them and how that information is used.