defamation

Google’s European Road Trip Gets Even Worse

Peter Kafka in Media on February 24, 2010 at 5:41 am PT

Maybe Google should just retire its passport for a bit. In China, the search giant is battling hackers and the government, who may be one and the same. In Europe, the company is being hauled in front of an antitrust review. And Italy? Total disaster.

Weekend Update, 02.07.09

Beth Callaghan in News on February 7, 2009 at 4:24 pm PT

What spreads faster than economic gloom and doom, and is more infectious than professional anxiety? That phenomenon known as “25 Things.” Just in time for Facebook’s fifth birthday, the record-breaking waste of time may have reached critical mass this week. Elsewhere this week…

Google: Che Diavolo, Italia?

John Paczkowski in News on February 3, 2009 at 7:45 am PT

In September 2006, a three-minute video featuring a group of teenagers harassing a boy with Down Syndrome was posted to Google Video Italia. Notified of it presence, Google quickly removed the video. But not quickly enough. The clip was viewed some 12,000 times before it was pulled. Enough times to inspire a two-year investigation and now, the trial of four Google executives on criminal charges of defamation and breach of privacy. Talk about blaming the tool for the way it is used….

I Hear Milan's Courtrooms Are WONDERFUL That Time of Year …

John Paczkowski in News on November 6, 2008 at 10:07 am PT

Now that Google’s scrapped its proposed advertising deal with Yahoo, the company’s chief legal counsel David Drummond should have plenty of time to devote to Google’s latest legal annoyance: charges of defamation abroad.

I Hear Milan’s Courtrooms Are WONDERFUL That Time of Year …