European regulators are cracking down hard on US corporations, with everything from privacy policies to tax evasion being investigated by countries and the European Union. Facebook is one of the many large corporations under investigation in multiple countries, and it is asking for a reform.

Facebook's head of public policy Richard Allen has wrote an opinion piece in The Financial Times, claiming that due to the 26 different laws the social network has to look into, it makes it harder to finalize new features and may lead to future fragmentation.

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Instead of working as a union, Allen claims that Europe's fragmented system for digital companies makes it hard for Facebook to work inside Europe. He warned that the continuation of these different regulations and investigations may lead to some new features not being implemented.

It is already hard enough to get Facebook's apps onto European app stores. Paper, Facebook's newspaper style network, is still unavailable despite launching in the U.S. a year ago. There are plenty of other experimental apps unavailable across Europe, showing Facebook's already fragmented system when it comes to global rollout.

New fragmentation may come in the form of main social network and Messenger updates, meaning that Europeans will not get the newest features people in the U.S. and other countries without heavy regulation have access to much earlier.

Facebook is under investigation in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain for various violations of the law. The European Court of Human Rights is also investigating Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple over violations of the US-EU safe harbor agreement, which was violated when those companies worked with the U.S. government on PRISM.

The effects of the decisions at the Court of Human Rights could change how Facebook operates in Europe, potentially meaning data centers for every country and local storage. It could drastically limit Facebook's main servers in the U.S., which track a lot of the information for advertising effectiveness.

Facebook is not the only company unhappy with European regulations, in fact a lobby group defending Google, Yahoo and other tech companies has went against the regulation, alongside the UK's new "Google Tax" of 25 percent to U.S. corporations that previously skirted around tax laws in the UK.

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