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Under intense fire and criticism from lawmakers, the media and its users for how it has handled the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg are letting users start from zero.
Ahead of the company's F8 developer conference, Zuckerberg announced a new "Clear History" feature built into Facebook.
"In your web browser, you have a simple way to clear your cookies and history. The idea is a lot of sites need cookies to work, but you should still be able to flush your history whenever you want," Zuckerberg wrote. "We're building a version of this for Facebook too. It will be a simple control to clear your browsing history on Facebook -- what you've clicked on, websites you've visited, and so on."
[...] Zuckerberg, who was recently grilled on Capitol Hill about everything from data privacy, whether the company collects data on non-users (it does) and his old sexist website FaceMash, cautioned that by clearing your Facebook history , the feature will not be as effective until it relearns a user's preferences.
[...] A survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute, a U.S.-based think tank, found that just 27 percent of 3,000 respondents believe Facebook will protect their privacy and user data, down from 79 percent in 2017. The survey's results were first reported by The Financial Times.
Also at CNN, Threatpost & TechSpot.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday May 04 2018, @01:35PM
"Flush your cookies when you want" does absolutely nothing with the data they've already amalgamated on you, and it does nothing with the data they amalgamate during the session prior to your asking for the flush. And I wonder if they can retain the session data that you asked for to be flushed. (65% of people asking for flushing were putting in porn search terms, 25% were looking for drugs, 10% were people liking Democratic party posts then looking at Republican oriented material....)
Give me an option that says, "When I #dumpFacebook you must flush any and all information you have about me that isn't inextricably amalgamated."
What we're seeing here is Zuckerberg's definition of "responsible" and I'm sure asking for my option is "unwarranted."
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