Quotes
- "In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then uploaded a video to Google Video that showed them bullying an autistic schoolmate"
- "Nevertheless, a judge in Milan today convicted 3 of the 4 defendants — David Drummond, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes — for failure to comply with the Italian privacy code."
Who else contributed to this specific privacy code violation?
Producers of the video-equipment:
- the recorder company employees
- the tape/media company employess
- broadcasters - here I mean all the internet-providers transfering the IP-packets with the video - ISP employees
- YouTube employees
- all the viewer-software and viewer-machine employees
- human viewers
- anyone viewing pictures of the video
- owners of video-copies in any form on harddisks/flash/backup-media (not necessarily having seen the video)
Guess how it adds up if in-direct privacy code violators could be made responsible
- tape/media-plastics producers
- electricity producers
- Video and IP-packet standards and those who defined the standards
- reporters covering the news
- me - for commenting on it
What can you learn from this?
- You really has to watch out for - who you work for and what services and products your employer is delivering in Italy on your initiative
- YouTube will have to close down its Italian services to protect its employees
- All video service providers in Italy are gambling with their employees freedom
- Destroy all your Italian holiday video to avoid the risk of going to jail
- Don't record any future video in Italy
