Standards of Evidence
And, and Goldman Sachs says it was legal too! What more proof do we need ?
Memo to Italy: Yo, make them say in open court "We were just trying to make a buck (~ 3/4 Euro) off the kid".
The Italian court which sentenced three Google executives to a suspended jail term made a legal error, according to an Italian legal expert who has studied the judgment (pdf, in Italian). Elvira Berlingieri told OUT-LAW that Google was likely to win any appeal. Three Google executives were sentenced under Italy's privacy laws …
the consequences of any other outcome would be horrendous for freedom of information - but let us also hope that the case does make Google - and other companies ! - reconsider how their terms of service are written and conveyed to the public. What is needed is a brief synopsis which makes clear that such actions as, e g, uploading content in which others are portrayed without obtaining prior consent, is not allowed, followed by a reference to all the legalease and lawyers' joy to which users are required to agree. If Google can be persuaded as a result of this case to modify its present practice, all the time and money devoted to this case will perhaps not have been in vain....
Henri