Apple to make personal data download tool available globally eventually

For now, the tool is available to Apple ID account holders in the European Union and a few other countries. Now all we have to do is wait for the data to come out and get sorted.

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What is GDPR and why you should care

Everything you need to know about GDPR. Whether it is about your fitness app, doing online shopping, applying for a credit card or just sending your Résumé around, the highly anticipated European legislation, called GDPR, will bring changes that you need to be aware of.

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WhatsApp to raise its minimum age to 16 in Europe

The messaging application is taking a different approach than its parent company in limiting its liability for keeping sensitive user data private. And Facebook's tactic is raising some eyebrows.

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Instagram rolling out Stories upgrade and Data Download tool

The upgrade allows users to upload multiple videos and pictures to their Stories at once. Meanwhile, those same users can now take out a copy of their data from the platform.

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Instagram rolling out Stories upgrade and Data Download tool

The upgrade allows users to upload multiple videos and pictures to their Stories at once. Meanwhile, those same users can now take out a copy of their data from the platform.

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Apple’s acquisition of Shazam under EU investigation for antitrust concerns

Regulators have questions about whether Apple will block user referrals to competing music services like Spotify and Google Play and whether it will have an unfair competitive advantage with the access to existing referral data.

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European Commission finally rules on Google Shopping shenanigans, imposing €2.4 billion fine

Google has been hit with a record €2.4 billion EU fine for anti-competitive practices researched and documented for nearly a decade.

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WiFi4EU program to deploy at least 6,000 free hotspots across the union

Up to 8,000 under-connected municipalities will be able to get a portion of the €120 million set aside for this program to get hotspots by 2020.

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It’s happening: ‘Last piece of the puzzle’ in place for EU roaming charges to end soon

No more paying extra for voice calls, text messages and mobile data consumption when away from home in the EU starting no later than June 15 2017.

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French Apple Store smashed by man who felt jilted on warranty

A visibly upset French man decided to walk into his local Apple Store in Dijon and, with a steel bocce ball, smash the screens of every display device he could get at. As a passerby started filming the rampage, the unnamed man yelled into the camera, “this is happening!”According to the Dijon Arondissement prosecutor, the perpetrator ended up causing about €50,000 of damage to iPhones and a MacBook before being detained by mall security.The person was apparently upset at ...

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HP Elite x3 pricing in Eurozone revealed [UPDATE for US]

A heavy-hitter has finally made itself known in the Windows 10 Mobile ecosystem. And it has a heavy-hitting price tag to go along with it.The Elite x3 is now listed in both single-SIM and dual-SIM configurations on HP’s site in Spain. The single-SIM price comes close to €846 ($936) while the dual-SIM version is €882 ($976). In Germany, the single-SIM price rounds to €832 and the dual-SIM at about €868We checked around the European Union to see what kind of price variations we’d be ...

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Telcos will put 5G in EU in 2020 if Commission loosens on open internet laws

Telecom companies in Europe are warning the European Commission that if net neutrality laws aren’t revised to benefit their returns, the deployment of 5G technologies will take until long after 2020.The EU’s current 5G Action Plan aims to have its 28 member countries covered in usable spectrum by the year. However, in a manifesto, 22 companies including ...

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