Time For Google To Leave Italy? Italy Announces That YouTube Responsible For All Content. Una Sentenza piccola piccola… The Google Files in Italy, a short summary about the trial, two or three notes and some misconceptions. « ElvLog. Summary.
The following post will cover what happened in the Google executives’ trial in Itay from a legal point of view . It explains which criminal sections were in the indictment, how they work, how the Electronic Commerce directive exempion works in Italy and why the electronic Commerce Directive did not apply in that particular case. We still do not have the complete ruling (only the verdict). My best guess is this: Google made a possible mistake to not go for a formal consulting with the Italian Privacy Authority following the rule of sect. 17, before launching the service. It would have provided them with advice on how to deal with possible situations like this one, where users committed a crime (failing to comply with Data Protection code) using their service.
But even this is not a solution in my opinion, as it would require a service like Google Video or YouTube to ask each country for their specific rulings and exceptions, leading to a very complex legal situation. Preface. 1. Google Italy & Privacy: Not What You Might Think. Reading through Italian news coverage of the Google Italy case, another picture emerges.
User privacy may well be at issue, but not in the way you probably think. I grew up in Italy and now research and teach Internet law in the United States. When I heard about the verdict against three Google executives, one of them an alumnus of the law school where I work, I went first to American sources, then to Italian ones. What I found was that most Americans may be getting the basic facts and ideas of the case wrong. Consider a recent op ed by Marc Rotenberg (another alumnus) over at the Huffington Post. I agree with Mr. The second set of charges, of which the Google executives were actually convicted, are supposed to be about privacy—namely, criminal liability for violating provisions of the Italian Personal Data Protection Code.
Italy Convicts Google Execs on Privacy Invasion Charges, Revisits Dark Ages. Three Google execs have been convicted on charges of privacy violation in an Italian court, based on a horrid schoolkid bullying clip on YouTube.
Though the video is shocking, it's the Italian legal system that's truly appalling. Google's own blog describes what occurred: In 2006, some school students in Turin bullied a schoolmate, suffering from autism according to Google. This was terrible enough, but these bullies also filmed the event, and uploaded it to YouTube. The Italian police became involved, and notified Google officially about the offending clip--it was taken "down within hours.
" Google's team then cooperated with the police to identify the perpetrators, and the data was subsequently key in convicting the female uploader, who received 10 months community service as a penalty, along with other involved male students. Italy convicts Google executives for autism bullying video. By Nick Pisa and Vanessa Allen Updated: 21:17 GMT, 24 February 2010 Three Google bosses have been found guilty of violating privacy laws after a video of an autistic boy being punched and kicked was posted on the internet.
The case is the first of its kind and has raised concerns over web freedom. The footage, posted on Google Video in September 2006, showed an autistic teenager cowering as he was attacked by four boys at a school in Turin, Italy. Judge Oscar Magi delivers his verdict today. He sentenced the three executives to a six-month suspended sentence and absolved them of defamation charges Google's George Reyes, left, and David Drummond, far right, have been convicted of privacy violations. It was number one in the 'most viewed' chart for two months before being removed. The trial could help define whether the internet in Italy is an open, self-regulating platform or if content must be better monitored for abusive material. Free Culture University of York » Blog Archive » Three Google managers condemned in Italy over bullying video. In 2007 a couple of young students attending a school in Turin beat both using words and physical violence a disabled kid.
A series of insults, blows and a cigarette were reversed upon the helpless student who just stood there in despair. These kind of situations usually arise in Italian schools when the teacher is not present because she is ill, absent or just somewhere else and the classroom is kept with the door closed in order to avoid noise in the hallways. Similar situations, unfortunately, are somewhat common, to a less severe degree, in the middle and high school environments. Perhaps due to unsupervised and not followed transformations in the character of a student. This time was different because the technology available and used allowed a far greater public to discover the abuses – which would have probably remained untold if the context remained solely the classroom.
*Topic from. Google Italy ruling 'threat to internet freedom'