Google’s privacy councel charged with defamation

The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) reports via [Slashdot] that Google’s global privacy council have been charged with defamation after a video was uploaded which was captured in a Turin classroom. The video depicts four boys taunting a young man with down syndrome, and hitting him with a tissue box. The video was uploaded by one of the boys, to Google’s italian video site.

Google’s global privacy counsel will appear in Italian court this week on criminal charges of defamation and failure to exercise control over personal data. The charges follow a two-year investigation by Italian authorities into footage uploaded onto Google Video that showed a disabled teen being disparaged by peers. Google’s Paris-based Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer and three other executives charged in the case will appear before the Criminal Court of Milan on February 3. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 36 months.

more on this at [The IAPP]