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Some Messenger and Instagram options are briefly unavailable to customers in Europe in order to adjust to new guidelines on knowledge utilization presently being rolled out in EU nations.
Affected customers are seeing alerts in the Facebook-owned apps that some options aren’t out there to “respect new rules for messaging services in Europe.”
The alert does not specify what the lacking options are, however The Verge notes that polls on each Messenger and Instagram are presently disabled in Europe, whereas stickers in Instagram are unavailable, as are personalised replies in Messenger. Each assist web page for the above options presently carries the discover:
This function could also be unavailable should you’re positioned in Europe or messaging an account primarily based in Europe to respect new messaging service guidelines. We’re working to carry it again.
The short-term adjustments are stated to be Facebook’s compliance with the nationwide implementations of the 2002 Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (ePrivacy Directive), which imposes stricter guidelines on knowledge use throughout communications providers that function in nations which are a part of the EU.
Other lacking options could embody a disabling of file sending on Messenger, lacking nicknames, and the flexibility to share AR results in DMs on Instagram.
Users in the United Kingdom are additionally lacking the options, as a result of EU legislation continues to apply to the U.Ok. throughout the Brexit transition interval (presently due to final till 31 December 2020).
Facebook has not given a selected timeframe for reinstating the lacking options, however instructed The Verge they’d retain “very soon.”
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