Italian prosecutors announced they will charge four Google executives over an Google Video clip which showed a teenager with Down's syndrome being bullied by other four youths. The video was posted in 2006 on the Italian section of the website but was subsequently removed. The abuse took place somewhere in a Turin school.

The four executives targeted are the person who was chairman of Google Italy at the time, as well as a former Google Italy board member, an executive responsible for European privacy policy, and the former head of Google Video for Europe, according to CNET.

The mobile phone video also led to charges for the four youths who taunted the teenager with Down's syndrome, but they might be dropped. Meanwhile, the Google executives, who had no link to the incident, will allegedly face charges of breach of privacy and defamation.

The Google executives are quite safe, because laws require Google to remove content which is found inappropriate or otherwise illegal, but does not have to monitor third-party content.