Our Experience

Italian Data Privacy Indictment of Google Officials

  • Practice Area(s): Litigation, Privacy & Data Security, Complex Civil Litigation, Government Enforcement, White Collar, Appellate
  • Attorney(s): Buffone, Samuel J.
  • Case Date(s): 2011

Represented Google’s Global Privacy Officer, Peter Fleischer, and Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, in a criminal data privacy case in Milan, Italy. Served as personal counsel for the two executives and worked extensively with Google’s in-house team. The trial ended in an acquittal on one count and conviction on a second. Continuing representation in an appeal in the Italian courts. The case is considered a landmark challenge to the freedom of the internet and has garnered international attention.