Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently justified controversial changes to the site's privacy policy by trotting out the sentiment that people no longer care about privacy as much as in the past. But new research commissioned by professors at UC Berkeley and University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School shows that people -- even young people between 18 and 24 -- care very much about protecting some information they consider personal.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski went to the Senate Commerce Committee this week to discuss the broadband plan. But some lawmakers were more focused on the FCC's recent defeat in the Comcast case, where an appellate court ruled that the FCC lacked authority to regulate the Internet under Title I of the Communications Act.

The Internet service provider Frontier has informed some broadband subscribers that they could be disconnected unless they agree to new $99-a-month rates. The reason? Those subscribers previously consumed more bandwidth than the company deemed reasonable.

The San Francisco District Attorney's Office has extracted a $650,000 settlement from social networking site Tagged.com for allegedly using deceptive registration practices in the spring of 2009.

And the latest plan to save newspapers is ... online gambling? Apparently the ailing Philadelphia Inquirer thinks so. Today, the paper launched a site where people can bet on fantasy sports games.

Facebook's unsettling plan to share users' names, photos and other information with some outside Web sites doesn't seem to be going over well with its members. The U.K. security firm Sophos reports that 95% of 680 people it surveyed don't approve of the idea. Only 2% of respondents said they liked the new plan -- and some of those people replied from an IP address connected to Facebook.

Still reeling from this week's court ruling, which said that the Federal Communications Commission has no authority to enforce net neutrality principles, the FCC is already warning that it might not be able to carry out aspects of the national broadband plan.

Google has been hit with another lawsuit stemming from its book digitization project, this time by the American Society of Media Photographers and other trade groups. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in New York, they allege that Google's "reproduction, distribution, and public display of the visual works" contained in books and periodicals infringes copyright. The photographers seek monetary damages and an injunction banning Google from making any further copies.

Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt has taken to the company's blog to justify the site's proposal to share information about members -- including their names, pictures and their friends' names -- with outside publishers. Schnitt stresses that the third-party sites "will be pre-selected, reviewed, and bound by contracts with Facebook" and that they will allow users to opt out of the program. But his post doesn't address a critical question: If this program is going to be so beneficial to users, why not launch it on an opt-in basis?

Last summer, Facebook was hit with a sweeping privacy lawsuit by five users who alleged that the site's business model, "has transformed from that of a social network into that of a data mining company." The users complained about everything from Social Ads -- a feature that tells users which of their friends are "fans" of particular marketers -- to the registration process, allegedly "designed to obfuscate review of the terms of use and privacy policy."