Google liable in Italy for not taking down video
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Google liable in Italy for disturbing video
Google liable for 'suggest search' results - International Law Office
Life is becoming increasingly difficult for search engine operators in Italy.Cybercrime Laws
and a speech by Lessign at the Italian Parliament, probably scheduled long ago and thus a coincidence with the verdict, “ Lessig Gives A Well-Timed Speech To The Italian Parliament On Internet Freedom “, TechDirt, 11 March 2010 and some pointing out that the EU may prefer privacy to freedom of speech. It is not wholly true, but yes, Europe definitely has a different vision of what is privacy in comparison with the US and even the UK, “ Where Are The European Regulators In Charge Of Protecting Freedom Of Expression?
Larger Threat Is Seen in Google Case - NYTimes.com
The verdict, though subject to appeal, could have sweeping implications worldwide for Internet freedom: It suggests that Google is not simply a tool for its users, as it contends, but is effectively no different from any other media company, like newspapers or television, that provides content and could be regulated.Repubblica Italiana v Drummond, De Los Reyes and Fleischer (Sentenza n. 1972/2010.
Google Case in Italy
This week, an Italian magistrate convicted three Google employees for an Internet video that none of them had produced, uploaded, or even seen. The case arose from an Italian video that was uploaded in 2006 to Google Video, which showed a disabled child being bullied by other schoolchildren.
The Google Three: Italy's Personal Attack on Intermediary Liability | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Google convictions reveal two flaws in EU law, not just Italian law
It could be three months before we get the court's full explanation for convicting Google's Chief Legal Officer David Drummond, Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer and former Chief Financial Officer George Reyes. That judgment will explain why they were held responsible for a video that showed an autistic child being bullied by Turin school pupils, a video that appeared on the Italian site of Google Video in 2006. For now we can only speculate on the court's reasons.
In Italian Google Case, American and European Ideas of Privacy Collide - NYTimes.com
In one sense, the ruling was a nice discussion starter about how much responsibility to place on services like Google for offensive content that they passively distribute.Google Italy & Privacy: Not What You Might Think | Stanford Center for Internet and Society
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.