NEW YORK — A document obtained by the ACLU shows for the first time how the four largest cellphone companies in the U.S. treat data about their subscribers’ calls, text messages, Web surfing and approximate locations. The one-page document from ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Drunken revelers rejoice: Facebook will now let you decide whether your friends can attach your name to a photo before it is circulated. Currently, your friends can add your name to a photo on Facebook without your ...

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NEW YORK — Skype is expanding even before it gets absorbed by Microsoft Corp. The online communications service said Monday that it plans to buy GroupMe, which provides group text messaging. Skype lets users make calls, conduct video chats and ...

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Did Butch Cassidy, the notorious Old West outlaw who most historians believe perished in a 1908 shootout in Bolivia, actually survive that battle and live to old age, peacefully and anonymously, in Washington state? And did he ...

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Brian Robinson was hiking the backcountry of the Colorado Rockies. Fred Goldsmith was at a dear friend’s funeral in North Carolina. Amy Evans was joyously beginning her Semester at Sea on the Pacific, miles from her first port in Japan. ...

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Localist Corp., a Baltimore-based social calendaring company, announced that eight universities, including Towson University, the University of Delaware at Newark and Georgetown University in Washington, have agreed to use its social networking services in place of their static online calendars. ...

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LOS ANGELES — News Corp. has sold struggling social networking site MySpace for $35 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. The deal values MySpace at a fraction of what News Corp. paid for the site six years ...

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NEW YORK — Online search leader Google is taking yet another stab at social networking, this time with a project it calls Google+. The project Google Inc. unveiled in a blog post Tuesday aims to make online sharing more like ...

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LOS ANGELES — News Corp. is aiming to sell its struggling social network site MySpace this week and will likely lay off more than half of the staff, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company hasn’t selected ...

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Welcome back to the roundup. Ease into the week with some of the latest law links: This should be obvious, but one local lawyer says when when handling a social media crisis, don’t act like Anthony Weiner. An American lawyer ...

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