2/24/2010
Hitting the news today is a report that an Italian court has convicted three Google executives in connection with a video that was posted on Google Video (Google's version of YouTube before Google bought YouTube). In case you haven’t been following this story, the video showed four Italian teenagers bullying an autistic youth. The video was posted on Google Video for a couple months, at which point police authorities contacted Google. Once notified, Google removed the video within a couple of hours and provided information about who posted the video, which led to the juvenile sentencing of the four teenagers.
Read more of this entry on Norbert's blog: http://privacy.wnj.com.