Regular readers may remember when Peter Fleischer, Google’s Global Privacy Counsel, was convicted by an Italian court for supposedly violating Italian privacy law. Peter had done nothing, but he was convicted because Google supposedly violated Italian privacy law by hosting a video uploaded by a Google Video user that showed a disabled youth being bullied….
Search Results for: Google Milan
Milan Prosecutors Request Jail for Google Executives
Chiara Remondini and Marco Bertacche report: Milan prosecutors requested one-year jail sentences for two Google Inc. executives and the company’s former chief financial officer if they’re found guilty of privacy violations and libel breaches. Prosecutors asked Judge Oscar Magi for one-year sentences in case of convictions for David Drummond, Google’s senior vice president of corporate…
Google to appeal conviction of three executives in Italy
I’m not sure if I missed some development while I was away for a few days or this is just a delayed response on Google’s part, but the San Francisco Chronicle reports: Google will begin an appeal as soon as January of a conviction by an Italian court of two managers and a former executive…
Google gets no sympathy from non-U.S. courts
Google has been fined $US8500 ($9100) in Brazil after an anonymous internet user posted defamatory messages on one of its sites against a priest, calling him a “paedophile”, media reported on Sunday. A court in the state of Minas Gerais ruled in favor of the 54-year-old priest, identified by his initials J.R., after rejecting Google’s…