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Apple Adopts Return Policy in Europe for Digital Purchases
Apple has updated its iTunes' terms and conditions governing the sale of digital goods in the European Union. The updated terms and conditions allow consumers to cancel their purchases and ask for a...
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Apple Changes App Store Refund Policy in Europe
Consumers in Europe can now get a "no questions asked" refund on purchases they don't like through Apple's App Store. The company quietly changed its policy on refunds in Europe, making it a lot easier...
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Former Valve Employee Named Greece's Minister of Finance
The man who once served as Valve's economist-in-residence (he wrote a regular blog about the company's virtual economies for a time) has taken a job with the government of Greece. Yanis Varoufakis, who...
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Digital refund policy now in effect for European Steam customers
Beginning today, Steam users in countries under the banner of the European Union can get a refund for digital purchases. For up to 14 days from the date of the original purchase of an item, Steam users...
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Rights groups take UK surveillance fight to Europe's highest court
Rights groups Amnesty International, Liberty and Privacy International, and others have announced that it will take its fight against security agencies such as GCHQ in the United Kingdom conducting...
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European Commission wants to ditch geo-blocking, streamline copyright law
According to this TorrentFreak report, the European Commission announced its new Digital Single Market Strategy today, which hopes to improve consumer access to digital services and goods by changing...
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Report: EU member states try to kill off net neutrality protections
French rights group La Quadrature du Net is claiming that it has obtained a leaked copy of a "non-paper" on net neutrality written by the presidency of the Council of the EU that basically guts net...
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European Parliament delays debate on TTIP
The European Parliament voted to postpone scheduled debates on a resolution related to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), Cihan reports.On Tuesday, the President of the EP,...
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Europe bans roaming charges, adopts stricter net neutrality rules
The European Commission announced that roaming charges for mobile phones will be banned in all European territories and that European lawmakers have adopted stricter net neutrality rules.read more
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Report: Europe's new net neutrality proposal may circumvent some existing laws
While the new net neutrality rules approved by the European Commission for the entire European region may ban roaming charges for cell phones and apply some basic net neutrality tenets, the new law...
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