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ROME – No liability of managers of Italian platform of Google for a video, left undisturbed in the network for two months, in which he saw a boy and a minor disability and mocked object violence by his classmates, complete with fascist salutes and written in praise of the Holy

This is the conclusion reached by the Third Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court who decided to confirm the acquittal of three top executives of Google responsible for Italy in 2006, when the video which caused many protests went into the net. The Supreme Court, dismissed the appeal against the acquittal filed by prosecutors in Milan that did not agree with the acquittal by the formula “because the fact does not exist” given by the Court of Appeal of Milan on December 21, 2012.

The charge for all three defendants, was to breach the privacy practices of 2003. In the first instance, on February 24, 2010, the Court had sentenced them to six months imprisonment with parole. David Drummond, former chairman of the board of Google Italy, George De Los Reyes, a former member of the board of Google Italy and Peter Fleischer, chief strategist of privacy to the Europe of Google, were defended by the former Keeper of Paola Severino and from ‘lawyer Mario Siragusa.

The offending video was shot at the end of May 2006 and was uploaded on the net on 8 September of the same year totaling many contacts. The pictures showed a kid with autism sitting on a chair, beaten by a classmate, while another dozen boys laughed at him and pulled him up to make him drop the objects eyeglasses and forcing him to look hard.

Propagating this clip had taken the first initiation of criminal proceedings at the international level, he saw the accused managers of Google because of a publication on the web.

In his indictment of the substitute Attorney General Mario Fraticelli had requested the annulment of the court acquittals, since “the same judgment of the Court of Appeals wrote that the three defendants had treated the video and have an opportunity to inspect the contents.” According to the pg “you can not think that anyone who provides a service on a platform then do not mind what is loaded.” “This was one of the most viewed movies!,” Said Fraticelli.

According to the thesis of a pg account is the e-commerce of goods and services in the strict sense, another thing is the dissemination of sensitive data which must be monitored more. The Supreme Court did not accept this argument. When the three managers were acquitted, the U.S. ambassador to Italy expressed satisfaction. Now, about a month shall be made known the reasons for the verdict of the Supreme Court and you will know better what are the areas of responsibility, or not, the search engine for content they offer. Hardly the appeals process would come to a conclusion: there would still be on the 8th of March.