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Name: Steve Hart
Job: Interactive Development Director for a large media communications company.
Interest: Everything Social Networks, SEO, Blogs, and Media Publishing.
Italian Judge Convicts 3 Google Employees Over Video
According to Google’s blog, three of their employees have been convicted in a Italian court for failure to comply with the Italian privacy code. 
In 2006, a video was posted on ‘Google Video’ showing a group of student bullying an autistic student (horrible!) at an Italian school. Google quickly took the video down and worked with local Italian authorities to apprehend the suspects.
A public prosecutor in Milan chose to charge 4 google employees for violating Italy’s privacy code. These employees had nothing to do with the video. They weren’t in it. They didn’t upload it. None of them had seen the video before the charges were brought up.
Today (2/24), the judge found three of the Google employees guilty.
Why is this important? Because Italy has set the precedent that employees of a content sharing company can be held liable for their users content. This includes the likes of WordPress, Blogger, Facebook, and other social media sharing giants.
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