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Nick Abouzeid

Facebook Clear History - Delete data that Facebook has collected on you

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Facebook Clear History is a new tool launched by Facebook to allow you to delete your data in Facebook's vaults, coming weeks after the Cambridge Analytica scandal and impending GDPR regulation in the EU.

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Chris Backe
Erm, why is this 'product' listed on 'Product Hunt' when it's neither available, working, or launched?
Phaneendra
I think it's a soft delete.
David Klein
But what if I want to sell my data to a hostile foreign power?
Igo Akulov
Brett Jones
@david_klein1 Пожалуйста свяжись со мной. Я дам вам хорошую цену за ваши данные!
Nick Abouzeid
Hunter
Unsurprising that this launched pre-GDPR. This won't solve all of our big data problems: at the end of the day, it's the consumer's job to intelligently protect their data before it's given to advertising companies like FB, not after.
Rafiq Maniar
@nickabouzeid I feel GDPR believe that no, it's not the consumers job to do this, in the same way that it's not the consumers job to research the food they eat to make sure it's safe (it's the job of the relevant Food Safety Authority, bar any allergies etc).
Jason Sooter
This should be hunted when it is available. Not sure why it is on here now. Can we now hunt 'products' based on a few paragraphs? Better moderation!
kun

We'll pay anyway. Either with privacy or with cash.

Pros:

{user: {_id: 42, _deleted: true, avatar: https://fb.image.xxx, birthday: 19930123, gender ...}}

Cons:

If you really want `delete row from users where user where _id = 42`, you need to buy Facebook Pro. and subscribe yearly.

Anthony Painter
What about deleting our shadow profiles that we don’t have access to, but they have created, “just in case” we one day sign up to Facebook (for a user who is not currently on Facebook)?
cn
Product not available, just a promise that will be built "soon".
Edin Vejzovic
Why do they even have 'off facebook' data. Who allowed them that? Oh yeah, we probbably did...
Dimo Trifonov
Now that Zuckerberg is enlightened I am pretty sure that Facebook with crack the scalability issues of the blockchain. All these "delete your data" tools are just buying them more time.
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