Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Italy Convicts Google Executives for Privacy Violations - WSJ.com

Not a happy headline for Google regardless of what happens next in the case

In the first such criminal trial of its kind, Judge Oscar Magi sentenced the three to a six-month suspended sentence and absolved them of defamation charges. A fourth defendant, charged only with defamation, was acquitted.

Google called the decision "astonishing" and said it would appeal. "The judge has decided I'm primarily responsible for the actions of some teenagers who uploaded a reprehensible video to Google video," Google's global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer, who was convicted in absentia, said in a statement.

Italy Convicts Google Executives for Privacy Violations - WSJ.com

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