Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months from launching

Re:Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months ... by EpicEng on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:04PM (#18717744)

And if/when the feature launches I would not at all be surprised to seeing this headline down the road:

"Facebook Clear History doesn't fully erase user data, information later sold to a group of Zombie Nazis bent on world domination."

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Re:Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months ... by denzil_correa on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:18PM (#18717877)

And it is mentioned as such in the article too that "Clear History =/= Delete History"

> There’s a reason that Clear History isn’t called “Delete History”: Using the feature will disassociate browsing data that Facebook collects from your specific account but it won’t be erased from Facebook’s servers completely, Baser said. Instead it’s just “de-identified,” which means it’s stored by Facebook but no longer tied to the user who created it.

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Re:Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months ... by distant_hat on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @03:40PM (#18719358)

At Facebook's granularity of data collection it would be almost trivial to identify a user even if that user's name is not connected with the data.

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