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Mobile Minutes: Facebook wants YouTube?; Government vs. Yahoo; Mobile apps' privacy; Parisian mobile guide

In what may be another signal that Facebook wants to take on YouTube, the company has reached out to some of the Google-owned video site's biggest content producers and encouraged them to test distributing their videos on the social network, say people familiar with the matter.

The federal government was so determined to collect the Internet communications of foreign Yahoo customers in 2008 that it threatened the company with fines of $250,000 a day if it did not immediately comply with a secret court order to turn over the data.

Many mobile apps request too many permissions and don?t explain how they collect users? personal information, a study of 1,211 popular apps by the Global Privacy Enforcement Network has found.

Kit Eaton reviews three apps that will help you better navigate Paris, from its transit system to the Louvre.