Facebook finally set to launch Clear History privacy tool

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Facebook finally set to launch Clear History privacy tool
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The tool comes in response to a series of privacy scandals involving the technology giant, most notably surrounding Cambridge Analytica

If you haven’t done this already, do it now. In Settings, hit the Privacy tab. From here, you can control who gets to see your future posts and friends list. Choose from Public, Friends, Only Me and Custom in the dropdown menu.Annoyingly, changing this has no effect on who’s able to see your past Facebook posts. Instead, on the Privacy page, you have to click on Limit Past Posts, then select Limit Old Posts and finally hit Confirm on the pop-up.

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