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Facebook delays its 'Clear History' tool yet again

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    Facebook delays its 'Clear History' tool yet again

The browsing privacy feature is taking longer to finish than expected.

Last year at F8, one of Mark Zuckerberg's major announcements was "Clear History," which was touted as a way for Facebook users to have the ability to delete their account history. It was promised to arrive last year, and then was delayed until "spring 2019." Unfortunately, however, it's apparently been delayed even further. At an event at Facebook today to go over the company's latest integrity efforts, VP of Integrity Guy Rosen said that the "Clear History" feature has been pushed to fall of this year.

According to Rosen, the reasoning behind this is because the team wanted to ensure that it's done in the right way. "We're working to  our systems, and how we process that data so that we can do it right," he said. "That's why it's taking more time than anticipated."
Be that as it may, it's still unclear why this privacy-oriented tool is taking well over a year to debut, especially since Zuckerberg had initially said it would be out only in a few months. We may have to wait until F8 -- or perhaps later -- to find out why.

Also a article from Recode
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When Facebook introduced its Clear History feature in May, it expected to offer the privacy-oriented controls in the space of a few months. Well... it's going to take decidedly longer than that. The company's David Baser told Recode in an interview that Clear History will be available for testing "by spring of 2019." It's "taking longer" to implement the de-identification technology than Facebook first thought, Baser said. He pinned it on major technical hurdles that cropped up in development.
To start, Facebook tends to store browsing data by scattering it to the four winds: the site, your personal ID and the time of visitation are in different places. And when Facebook stores that data based on date and time instead of individual users, it can't easily associate history with specific people. The social network had to craft a user-focused data storage system just to make Clear History feasible.
This isn't going to help Facebook's image when it's already grappling with privacy bugs that have exposed data for millions of people. One of its marquee features from this year's F8 might not show up until a full year later. Facebook is at least confirming that Clear History is on track, though, and it now has a more definitive timetable.

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