Facebook's decision to disable features Facebook has temporarily disabled some of the said features in order to follow the new rules on data usage in EU countries. It is a part of the national implementations that are currently taking place of the 2002 Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive or ePrivacy Directive. This directive imposes stricter rules on data use across apps and communication services that operate in countries that are part of the European Union, according to TechCrunch. Back in November, European Union lawmakers have laid out a proposal to encourage the reuse of industrial data by creating a standardized framework of tools and techniques to make sure that sharing data is secure and is under privacy-compliant conditions.