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Italy prepares to charge Google execs

reuters.com — Italian prosecutors are preparing to file charges against four current or former Google Inc executives over a 2006 video. The video shows a teenager with Down syndrome taunted by other youths.

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  • michaelpinto, on 07/26/2008, -0/+5"Prosecutors have concluded an inquiry that could lead to the executives being charged with defamation and failure to exercise control over personal data, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity." Will the prosecutors also go after phone companies for threatening phone calls? The teenagers who made the video should be punished, but this is just the EU going after American companies. One wonders if they would do the same if it was DailyMotion or Seesmic?
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