Chinese Remake the ‘Made in Italy’ Fashion Label

Prato, Italy, is now home to Europe's largest concentration of Chinese.  In this city, in the heart of Tuscany, they work for over 3,200 companies making low-end clothes, shoes, and accessories, often with materials imported from China.  Their products get the exclusive "Made in Italy" label, and now Italians are growing resentful at how the Chinese are beating them at their own game.

Chinese Remake the ‘Made in Italy’ Fashion Label - NYTimes.com

Italy Convicts Google Execs for Something They Knew Nothing About

Before Google bought YouTube, it ran a site called Google Video. Back in 2006 (eons ago in Internet time), some students in Italy uploaded a video of them bullying an autistic classmate. When an advocacy group contacted Google, Google immediately took the video down, identified the uploader, and turned her identity over to authorities who prosecuted her. Italian prosecutors then took the breathtakingly stupid step of charging Google executives, namely in-house lawyers, who had nothing to do with Google Video and weren't in Italy, with "allowing" the video to be uploaded. Yesterday three of those execs were convicted in criminal court and sentenced to six months in prison each (suspended under law). Do the Italians really want to make their legal system a laughing stock on the world stage like this?

DailyTech - Italy Convicts Three Google Execs for Violating Privacy Laws, Ruling Could Stifle Web Content