Three Google executives were convicted by the court of Milan for allowing a video to be broadcasted online. The video showed a teenager suffering from Down's Syndrome being oppressed. The condition is the most common hereditary cause of mental retardation, occurring in about 1 out of 700 live births.

The employees were charged of breaking Italian law by permitting the video to be posted online. Though Judge Oscar Magi has released them of the insult, but charged them of violating the privacy norms.

According to the prosecutors, Google broke Italian privacy law by not seeking the permission of all the parties involved, before making it online. Though the lawyers said that the video was removed the moment it was brought to its notice. The firm did provide the information regarding the one who posted it.

This is surely going to affect the content providers across the globe. Google assumes it be a danger to the liberty on the internet and added that it was a herculean task to screen all the YouTube content posted by every Tom, Dick and Harry.

It was posted on Google Video in 2006 soon after the firm took charge of YouTube.