Facebook Give Users Tool To Terminate Third-Party Tracking sites
Facebook is holding its F8 developer conference on Tuesday. Given that it’s been going through a lot of trouble related to third-party developers it brought a surprise announcement to take your mind off of privacy concerns. It will soon give you control over the information that apps and websites are seeing about you, and let you opt out.
Just before taking the stage at F8, Mark Zuckerberg posted a statement to his personal page introducing the feature called Clear History. It reads in part:
Just before taking the stage at F8, Mark Zuckerberg posted a statement to his personal page introducing the feature called Clear History. It reads in part:
Today at our F8 conference I’m going to discuss a new privacy control we’re building called “Clear History”.
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. 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.
Once we roll out this update, you’ll be able to see information about the apps and websites you’ve interacted with, and you’ll be able to clear this information from your account. You’ll even be able to turn off having this information stored with your account.