In a ruling that could have profound implications for the future of the Internet, three Google executives were convicted of privacy violations on Wednesday over a video that aired briefly in 2006 on the now-defunct Google Video site. David Drummond, Google’s SVP and chief legal officer, Peter Fleischer, the company’s chief privacy counsel, and George Reyes, its CFO, were all given six-month prison sentences by Judge Oscar Magi for allowing the posting of a video depicting the bullying of a disabled teen by classmates in a Turin technical school.
