Facebook plans to offer members a tool that to prevent tracking of their online activity outside the network.
The Clear History feature will allow users to see which websites and applications send Facebook information when they use them, delete the data and prevent Facebook from collecting and storing it in the future.
Although that information would not be associated with a user's account, it still would be used in anonymized form to provide website operators and app developers with analytics about Facebook users use of their wares.
"It will take a few months to build Clear History," wrote Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan in a Tuesday post.
"We'll work with privacy advocates, academics, policymakers and regulators to get their input on our approach, including how we plan to remove identifying information and the rare cases where we need information for security purposes," she said.
"We've already started a series of roundtables in cities around the world," Egan added, "and heard specific demands for controls like these at a session we held at our headquarters two weeks ago."
Source:technewsworld
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