Lawyers for Google are expected to challenge Italy’s right to try Google executives at a hearing on Tuesday, in a trial seen as a test case over attempts to “police” web content.Google lawyers hope that the case will be thrown out. Google is accused at the trial, which opened last month (February), of violating privacy laws after a three-minute mobile phone video showing four youths in Turin tormenting a classmate with Down’s syndrome was posted on the Google Italy site.
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Google lawyers seek to halt Italy trial
Lawyers for Google are expected to challenge Italy’s right to try Google executives at a hearing on Tuesday, in a trial seen as a test case over attempts to “police” web content.