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Privacy groups urge FTC to probe Facebook's deal to buy WhatsApp
The Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook's $19 billion acquisition of mobile messaging service WhatsApp.
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BUSINESS
Facebook tightens policies on posts about illegal gun sales
Under intensifying pressure from gun control groups and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Facebook Inc. is tightening its policies to make it more difficult for people to illegally sell or trade guns on Facebook and Instagram, particularly to minors.
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Facebook, Instagram impose new rules on gun sales
Gun control groups praised Facebook Inc. on Wednesday for changing its policies to block potentially illegal firearm sales online.
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BOOKS
The Romance Reader: 'Lassoed by Fortune'
"Lassoed by Fortune" by Marie Ferrarella; Harlequin ($5.50, paperback)
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What makes 'What Makes This Book So Great' so great? A love of reading
"What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy" by Jo Walton; Tor ($26.99)
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'Little Demon in the City of Light' by Steven Levingston
"Little Demon in the City of Light" by Steven Levingston; Doubleday ($26.95)
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David Grand conjuring early L.A. from afar in 'Mount Terminus'
"I developed a phobia of Los Angeles," says David Grand.
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'Suspicion Nation': Lisa Bloom brings a TV pundit's sensibility to the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case
"Suspicion Nation" by Lisa Bloom; Counterpoint ($25)
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'Kinder Than Solitude,' dealing with a poisoned past in China
"Kinder Than Solitude" by Yiyun Li; Random House ($26)
