A Louisiana woman is suing Facebook over allegations that the social networking site collects and stores users’ Internet browsing history without their permission. Similar suits have been filed in other states, including Kansas and California.

Appellate challenges to the FCC’s open Internet regulations are piling up days after the agency’s release of its final rule on the matter. The hotly contested rule on “net neutrality” details standards for Internet access providers’ management of information in their networks.

A former law school adjunct professor has been disbarred by the Maryland Court of Appeals after pleading guilty to trying to seduce minors on the Internet. Richard Donald Lieberman was accused of emailing sexually explicit material to federal agents posing as 10- and 13-year-old girls.

In a suit filed Thursday in federal court in Virginia, patent holding company I/P Engine wielded Internet search-related patents it recently acquired from Lycos in an infringement complaint against Google, AOL and others.

Because of the nature of the content headed for the new “.xxx” generic top-level Internet domain, the company responsible for administering .xxx has put together an unusual program to help companies protect their brands. It is an early and important case for testing how brands deal with new gTLDs.