Blogs your wayMediaCollege.com Blog (Free subscription) | 02/25/2010
Italian Judge Oscar Magi has convicted three Google employees for privacy violation after an offensive video was posted to Google Video back in 2006. The employees did get away with six-month...
Best Italy (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
In bItaly/b today, Judge Oscar Magi convicted three US-based Google (GOOG) executives of violating the privacy of a disabled boy in 2006 when a video was posted on Google Video of students bullying a disabled boy.
Tongue Tied 3 (Free subscription) | 02/26/2010
... for two months before finally being removed.... The three executives found guilty by judge Oscar Magi were David Carl Drummond, former Google Italy and now senior vice president, George De Los Reyes, a retired financial executive and privacy director Peter Fleischer. The three were found guilty of violating privacy laws and given six month suspended sentences, while they were cleared...
Satellite TV support forum & Digita (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
An Italian court has convicted three Google executives in a trial over a video showing an autistic teenager being bullied. The Google employees were accused of breaking Italian law by allowing the video to be posted online. Judge Oscar Magi absolved the three of defamation but convicted them...
Mobile Magazine (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
A court case that has been closely watched due for its implications for Internet freedom has ended and the verdict is disturbing. Three Google executives in Italy have been convicted of privacy violations because of a disturbed individual who posted a video from their mobile phone on ‘Google video’ of an autistic boy being abused. Judge Oscar Magi has sentenced three Google...
Tech Trader Daily (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
In Italy today, Judge Oscar Magi convicted three U.S.-based Google (GOOG) executives of violating the privacy of a disabled boy in 2006 when a video was posted on Google Video of students bullying a disabled boy. The judge handed down six-month prison sentences to David Drummond, senior VP and chief [...]
Tolerance.ca (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
Judge Oscar Magi rules Google failed to act quickly enough to remove video showing a boy suffering from Down syndrome being bullied
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
... the video was previously sentenced to 10 months of community service by a court in Turin. Judge Oscar Magi absolved the three of defamation charges, but convicted them of invasion of privacy. Despite the Googlers’ protest that the video was pulled down within two hours after Italian police contacted the company, Italian advocacy group Vivi Down and the boy’s mother filed...
CloudAve (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
<rant> Italian Judge Oscar Magi ( photo @ TechCrunch , but I am not showing it for fear he might slap me with a privacy-invasion charge) has no idea what he’s dealing with. He’s just allowed evil witches get away with only 6 months suspended jail sentence. (C’mon, why would their employer insist on covering up with the “do no evil” slogan'). Not enough....
WWMT.com : News (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
MILAN (AP) - Three current and former Google executives have been convicted of privacy violations in allowing a video of an autistic boy being abused to be posted online. Judge Oscar Magi on Wednesday absolved the three of defamation and acquitted...
ISEdb.COM - Blogs (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
An Italian judge found three Google executives guilty of violating the privacy of a disabled student after a video of him being bullied was posted on Google Video. Judge Oscar Magi sentenced the three Google executives to a six-month prison sentence for privacy violation, but cleared them of defamation charges. A fourth marketing executive was found [...]
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
... allowing the video of bullying of a teenager with Down's Syndrome to be posted on YouTube. Judge Oscar Magi (pictured) absolved the three of defamation but convicted them of privacy violations. The three executives have received a suspended six-month sentence, while a fourth defendant was acquitted. Google has responded in a justifiably vociferous blog post calling this a "serious...
TechCrunch Europe (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
... allowing the video of bullying of a teenager with Down's Syndrome to be posted on YouTube. Judge Oscar Magi (pictured) absolved the three of defamation but convicted them of privacy violations. The three executives have received a suspended six-month sentence, while a fourth defendant was acquitted. Google has responded in a justifiably vociferous blog post calling this a "serious...
Gadget (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
... were involved in any way in the making of the abhorrent video. Nevertheless, Italian judge Oscar Magi sentenced the execs to a six-month prison sentence but cleared them of defamation charges. No jail time is expected, however, since any sentence of less than 3 years is typically commuted in Italy for those without a criminal record. As you can imagine, Google has responded with vigor....
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
Three Google executives were convicted of privacy violations Wednesday in allowing a video of an autistic boy being abused to be posted online _ a case that has been closely watched for its implications on Internet freedom. Judge Oscar Magi sentenced the... Google - Privacy - Searching - Search Engines - Security