Additional Claim Filed against Google - February 3, 2009 The Privacy Adviser February 3, 2009 "[In an Italian court, f]our Google executives[, ... including] Google's Paris-based Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer ... face [criminal] charges of defamation and failure to exercise control over personal data, over footage uploaded onto Google Video that showed a disabled teen being disparaged by peers. ... The charges carry a maximum sentence of 36 months. [This] is believed to be the first criminal sanction ever pursued against a privacy professional for his company's actions. "The video that sparked the investigation was captured in a Turin classroom. Four high school boys were recorded taunting a young man with Down syndrome, and hitting the 17-year-old with a tissue box. One of the boys uploaded the footage to Google Video's Italian site on September 8, 2006." To read the full article, click on the Title Line, above.