Earlier this week, four Google executives will be put on trial in Italy.  These executives are  accused of defamation and failure to exercise control over personal data.  These charges of inadequately regulating content on the internet are serious and can present a maximum jail sentence of 36 months to the accused executives if convicted.

Rosalie Marshall, a contributing writer of V3.co.uk (formerly vnunet.com) presents a summary article of the issues and claims surrounding this trial, and, for a topic this important to privacy rights on the internet, it is an article well worth reading. And, the trial may be one well worth following over the next several months.

Many should be watching the outcome of this trial, since, this area of privacy on the internet relates to so many other areas of privacy that can impact the plans of internet use within organizations worldwide.

Click here to read this article.