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Nintendo is going to court over its refund policy

The Norwegian Consumer Council first spoke out against the policy in early 2018, but the complaint reached Germany because that's where Nintendo of Europe is based.

The Council wrote an open letter to Nintendo, part of which reads:.

"According to the right of withdrawal laid down in the Consumer Rights Directive, such terms are illegal.

Until the game can be downloaded and launched, the seller cannot prohibit the consumer from cancelling their pre-order.".

Meanwhile, Nintendo's e-shop doesn't even allow you to pre-order a title unless you waive your right to get your money back.

You'd have to check a box that reads: "I consent that Nintendo begins with the performance of its obligations before the cancellation period ends.

Nintendo defended its policy in the past by citing article 16 of the 2011/83 European Consumer Law Directive (PDF), which lists all the exceptions from the right of withdrawal. »

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Authored by cnn.com

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Solar households expected to give away power to energy firms

Authored by theguardian.com

The government has said households that install solar panels in the future will be expected to give away unused clean power for free to energy firms earning multimillion-pound profits, provoking outrage from green campaigners.

The mayor of London, big energy firms and environmentalists had urged ministers not to end the “export tariff” for solar panels under the feed-in tariff scheme, which is closing next year.

But officials confirmed that anyone who adds solar from April 2019 will not be paid for any excess power they export to the grid. »

Watch This NASA Engineer Beat Porch Pirates With a Glitter Bomb

Authored by digitaltrends.com

If you have ever had a package stolen off your front porch, you probably wanted to exact a bit of revenge on the thief.

That was the feeling that former NASA engineer and current YouTube DIY extraordinaire Mark Rober had when someone swiped a box from his door earlier this year.

The police wouldn’t help, so Rober put his engineering background to work and crafted the perfect porch pirate deterrent: A glitter bomb. »

'Zuckerberg Must Resign Now': Outrage After Report Shows Facebook Let Corporate Partners Read Users' Private Messages

Authored by commondreams.org

Citing hundreds of pages of internal company records and interviews with dozens of former employees, the Times reported that "Facebook allowed Microsoft's Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users' friends without consent" and "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users' private messages.".

"Facebook is a public trust that has broken our trust," wrote author and NBC political analyst Anand Giridharadas in response to the Times report.

-Netflix and Spotify got to read users’ private messages. »