On Wednesday, February 24, an Italian court convicted three Google executives of violating the privacy of a minor. A video shown on Google’s video site showed the bullying of an autistic schoolboy at Turin secondary school in 2006. The video was posted to the site on September 8 that year and removed on November 7 after a complaint by Italian police. Prosecutors in the case said that Google was negligent in not removing the video sooner.
David Drummond, chief legal officer at Google and one of the convicted individuals, was “outraged” by the decision: “If individuals like myself and my Google colleagues who had nothing to do with the harassing incident, its filming or its uploading onto Google Video can be held criminally liable solely by virtue of our position at Google, every employee of any internet hosting service faces similar liability”.
see also spike! magazine for an analysis of the case http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8243/
— John User · Mar 12, 07:27 PM · #