European Courts Giving Google Headache

Two surprising news bits from Google coming out of Europe this morning.  First, an Italian court sentenced three US-based Google executives to six month prison terms because someone uploaded a video was posted on Google Video of students bullying a disabled boy. 
Even stranger: Microsoft is putting Google in EU court for...wait for it...being a monopoly.
The first case is something, while unfortunate, Google has absolutely no control over.  When they found out about the video, Google even helped authorities isolate the persons who uploaded the video.

In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then uploaded a video to Google Video that showed them bullying an autistic schoolmate. The video was totally reprehensible and we took it down within hours of being notified by the Italian police. We also worked with the local police to help identify the person responsible for uploading it and she was subsequently sentenced to 10 months community service by a court in Turin, as were several other classmates who were also involved. In these rare but unpleasant cases, that's where our involvement would normally end.

But a public prosecutor went after Google and four of their employees that had nothing to do with the video (and didn't even know it existed until after it was removed) and somehow a judge in Milan today convicted 3 of the 4 defendants — David Drummond, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes — for failure to comply with the Italian privacy code.  Read more 
source: computerworld

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