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It's one of those ironies that's probably going to keep coming up in this information age, where everyone is interested…

It’s one of those ironies that’s probably going to keep coming up in this information age, where everyone is interested in the privacy of personal information but sharing more and more of it online. The New York Times reports that Mark Zuckerberg, a college student who became a billionaire by age 23 from the Facebook social networking site, asked a federal judge to force an online news source to take down an article critical of him, because it relied on court documents that he had managed to convince a judge to seal.

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