From ZDNet:
Every once in a while, you come across a story that makes you shake your head in disbelief.
Today, that story comes out of Milan, Italy, where a judge has convicted two Google employees and a former employee for non-compliance of the Italian privacy code over a video that was uploaded to Google Video in late 2006. A fourth employee also faced charges but was not convicted.
In the video, students filmed and uploaded a clip of them bullying an autistic classmate, a clip that Google called “totally reprehensible” in a blog post this morning. Google said it took down the clip within hours of being notified about it by Italian authorities, In addition, the company worked with local police to identify the person who uploaded the video and that those involved…