Four Google executives went on trial on Tuesday in Milan for allegedly infringing the privacy of a teenager with Down’s Syndrome who appeared in a video posted on one of its sites. <\/p>\n
According to the prosecution, the four officials from the online search engine had a "legal obligation to prevent" the video, which showed the boy being bullied by classmates, from airing, the ANSA news agency reported.<\/p>\n
The four are also accused of collaborating to defame the teenager in an incident that caused a public outcry in Italy in 2006.<\/p>\n
In the video, which was uploaded using a Google video site, the teenager was bullied by four students in front of over a dozen others who did not intervene.<\/p>\n
The four students were expelled for the remainder of the school year from their school in Turin.<\/p>\n
The Google executives standing trial include: David Carl Drummond, the head of Google Italy’s managing board; George De Los Reyes, a board member; Peter Fleitcher, in charge of privacy protection in Europe; and Arvind Desikan, head of videos for Europe.<\/p>\n
Google called the decision to take the case to trial "difficult to understand" and said it set a "worrying precedent".<\/p>\n
The next hearing is scheduled for February 19, according to ANSA.<\/p>\n
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