Google got official complaints concerning of anti-competitive behavior from three companies that are based in the European Union. Moreover, three Google employees were accounted guilty of violating Italian privacy laws.
In fact there is nothing new that Google is charged for unfair practices connected with its search algorithms. But it is interesting to note that the charges against the search giant in Europe happen simultaneously with accusations of unfair trade practices against Google in the United States. According to Eric Goldman, an Associate Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law, some of these US-based lawsuits can be regarded as part of a Microsoft campaign.
It was also announced by Google that three of its employees in Italy were accounted guilty Italian privacy laws. This is the case of 2006 year when school children in Turin, Italy recorded themselves bullying a 17- year old boy that suffered Down Syndrome. They uploaded the video on Google Video. Later the video was removed and according to Google it helped police find begetters.
It was decided by Italian prosecutors that the search giant was responsible for the video and as a result charged four Google executives with defamation and inability to protect the privacy of the boy with Down Syndrome.
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