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Apple Fined By Italy For Misleading Customers About Warranty Terms

Posted by Unknown on from the legal-obligations-are-for-other-people dept.

beaverdownunder writes "An Italian watchdog has fined Apple 900,000 euros ($1.2m, £750,000) for failing to inform Italian shoppers of their legal right to two years of technical support, recognizing instead only a one-year standard warranty. This had led people to pay extra for Apple's own support service, AppleCare, which overlapped with the government-mandated guarantee."

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  1. Re:Apple got off lightly... by Tsingi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To be fair, consumer laws in the US are pretty poor and there's very little government intervention even when US companies deliberately and systematically break the law.

    But this was not in the US, it was in Italy and like much of the the rest of the world, there are laws in Italy to protect consumers from dodgy goods.

    US: society equals corporations and the laws reflect that
    EU: society equals citizens and the laws reflect that.

    elsewhere? Depends on how badly the government has been screwed by corporations (IMF, World Bank, etc...) already.