More than 1.4 million teachers and students have created Web pages through Edublogs, a blogging platform powered by WordPress. Last week, all of those pages went dark, thanks to a host company's overeager response to a takedown notice.

Regulators in Europe are demanding that Google rethink recent revisions to its privacy policy. In a five-page letter to CEO Larry Page, EU officials say the company's new privacy policy, which took effect March 1, leaves consumers in the dark about how Google collects or uses their data. The officials also say that in some case, Google's decision to combine data about users from across more than one platform might be illegal.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris has made clear that she wants app developers to offer privacy policies. Now she's publicly calling out companies that lack them -- and is doing so on Twitter, no less. Harris recently issued the following tweet regarding United Airlines: "Fabulous app, @United Airlines, but where is your app's #privacy policy?" she wrote.

"Caveman diet" advocate Steve Cooksey has lost his battle for a court order banning regulators in North Carolina from attempting to censor his blog. The case, which drew much attention when it was filed earlier this year, posed the question of whether bloggers need a license to post dietary advice. But last week, U.S. District Court Judge Max Cogburn in Charlotte dismissed the case without answering that question. Instead, he ruled that Cooksey's lawsuit against North Carolina authorities was premature because they hadn't yet taken action against him.

Netflix has agreed to offer closed captioning on all streaming video by September of 2014 in order to settle a lawsuit filed by the National Association of the Deaf. The deal, approved today by U.S. District Court Judge Michael A. Ponsor in Massachusetts, resolves a complaint alleging that Netflix violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to provide closed-captioning. The agreement also requires Netflix to pay $755,000 to the National Association of the Deaf's for attorneys' fees and court costs.

Five years ago, privacy advocates asked the Federal Trade Commission to back a do-not-track system that would allow people to opt out once and for all from online behavioral targeting. The FTC did so, and the major browser manufacturers responded by offering (or promising to offer) a do-not-track header that, when turned on, sends a signal that users don't want to be tracked. But the ad industry is still struggling to figure out how to implement do-not-track.

Hewlett-Packard and its public relations company, Porter Novelli, got a pass from the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly giving bloggers swag to encourage them to write about the tech company's products.

Kyle Goodwin, who owns the business OhioSportsNet, was one of numerous Web users who stored copies of his videos on the cyberlocker Megaupload. Goodwin and his employees travel throughout Ohio, take videos of various high school games, and then offers them online. His servers crashed on January, shortly before the federal government shut down Megaupload for alleged copyright infringement.

Is it any surprise that Facebook is once again under scrutiny for how it handles users' data? This time, the issue centers on messages that users send to each other through Facebook. Turns out that the social networking service has been scanning users' messages to see whether they include any links. If so, the company interprets the link as a "like," though it doesn't publicly identify the user who sent the message.

Handing a victory to Pandora, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing the company of violating a Michigan privacy law by sharing information about Facebook users' music choices.In the ruling, issued on Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong in Oakland, Calif. said that Michigan's law -- which is more than 20 years old -- only applies if companies lend, rent or sell music. Armstrong specifically ruled that the law doesn't apply to companies that stream music online.