Valentine S Day Blues Facebook Forced To Delay Dating Service Launch In Europe
According to The Wall Street Journal (opens in new tab), Facebook intended to roll out Facebook Dating to its European users today (the day before Valentine’s Day), but was blocked from doing so when Ireland’s Data Protection Commission got wind of the plan yesterday, on February 12th. So what’s the big deal? According to the same report, under EU data privacy rules, companies have to perform a data processing impact assessment (DPIA) before launching a product or service that could impact their customers’ data....