Google Employees convicted in Italy

google-logoThree Google employees have been convicted by an Italian court over an obnoxious video uploaded to the company's video service.

However, Google has nodded for its full support to the ruling of the court.

The issue cropped up when a video was uploaded, depicting Italian students bullying an autistic classmate. After the notification from Italian police officials, Google made a quick action to remove the video and supported the authorities to chase the guilty. The punishment to such an offence is 10 months sentence community service.

But the story didn't ended here, a public prosecutor accused four Google employees - chief legal officer David Drummond, senior product marketing manager Arvind Desikan, global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer, and former chief financial officer George Reyes, who disembarked the Google fleet in 2008 - on charges of criminal defame and failure to comply with the Italian privacy code.

According to reports, a judge convicted that the all the four individuals are not held liable or guilty of criminal defamation. As they have no appearance in the film, neither they filmed the stuff, nor uploaded it. None of them were aware of the fact that such a video has been uploaded. However it's a criminal offence for that employee who baits Google as a platform to do such activities.

Further the European Union law was specially built up to give hosting providers a safe portal from the fear till the time they remove illegal contents once notified.

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