"Privacy?" Hah! More like "plausible deniability for fueling ethnic violence." If they can't read the messages, then they aren't responsible. Meanwhile, mos

"Privacy?" Hah! More like "plausible deniability for fueling ethnic violence." If they can't read the messages, then they aren't responsible. Meanwhile, most of the useful ad targeting data is in the metadata, which they still collect. They're truly shameless. This is also funny, in a grim sort of way: > Late last year, Facebook admitted that Clear History is taking longer than expected -- it turns out that browsing data, which the company uses to help send more targeted advertising to users on its social platforms -- is more deeply ingrained into Facebook’s systems than anyone realized. Simply finding and deleting the correct data without disrupting Facebook’s advertising and analytics businesses has been a big enough challenge that the product hasn’t gotten off the ground... If Facebook were serious about this, they could easily implement a "nuke all of my data" option that would wipe all of your history. Not just the stuff gathered from beacons, but everything, so people could start over from scratch with their new understanding of how Facebook operates. But they clearly aren't serious. I suspect that the only real "clear history" option will be exporting your data, deleting your profile, and making a new one, preferably using a new email address from a public computer.