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UK sets out social media prosecution guidelines

By SYLVIA HUIAssociated Press LONDON (AP) - British government prosecutors have set out new guidelines to make it harder to bring legal cases against people who send offensive messages on Twitter and Facebook. The guidelines, published Wednesday, come amid increasing criminal prosecutions against

Instagram says users' photos won't appear in ads

By BARBARA ORTUTAYAP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Instagram, the popular mobile photo-sharing service now owned by Facebook, said Tuesday that it will remove language from its new terms of service suggesting that users' photos could appear in advertisements. The language in question

NRA promises to help prevent school shootings

By PHILIP ELLIOTTAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - After four days of self-imposed silence on the shooting that killed 26 people inside a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the nation's largest gun rights lobby emerged Tuesday and promised "to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure

Software industry braces for new phone apps rules

By RICHARD LARDNERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - A cellphone game for kids about U.S. geography, "Stack the States," gets rave reviews from parents. Its creator, Dan Russell-Pinson, considered making the 99-cent app better by adding a feature to allow children to play online against one another