This means that data sharing between the US and EU is a lot more complicated, as the EU ruling basically says that US data protection regulations are not sufficient to comply with the requirements set out in the GDPR.
Sorry but epd (ePrivacy Directive)[0] is from 2002 with last amendments in 2009 and has nothing to do with this.
There's a draft for "ePrivacy Regulation"[1][2] introduced in 2017 that looks to replace ePrivacy Directive, but it's still in a draft and discussions stage. There's no guarantee it'll become a law.
Sorry but you’re mistaken. The original ePD applied to messaging services, ie, SMS providers. What changed this year is that a few months ago the EU decided that providers like Messenger should be covered by the regulation too.
But I don't understand how ePD with no changes from 2009 can suddenly include Facebook and others? Unless there have been other regulations passed?
I can't find anything about ePD changes that forces Facebook to do this, all I can find is the upcoming ePR (ePrivacy Regulation) that will affect Facebook and others, but it hasn't been passed yet.
I haven't heard of any privacy/GDPR/ePD changes recently other than the EU-US Privacy Shield invalidation.
Is there anything I can read on the changes you're talking about?