CALIFORNIA, May 1, 2018 (News Wires) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said the social network is building a new privacy control called "clear history" to allow users to delete browsing history, and he plans to discuss the feature at Facebook's annual F8 conference. "One thing I learned from my experience testifying in Congress is that I didn't have clear enough answers to some of the questions about data," he wrote in a Facebook post. Facebook's annual F8 conference is scheduled to start at around 10.30pm IST in San Jose, California, in the wake of a year of controversies over fake news, privacy violations, congressional testimony, Russia investigations, and consequent apologies. Facing the startups, software developers and other tech folks who are normally some of Facebook's biggest fans, Zuckerberg will have a chance both to apologize again for the company's missteps - and to talk about where things go from here. If his recent statements are any indication, Zuckerberg will probably mention that Facebook must take a "broader view" of its responsibility in the world, emphasize the value of the Facebook "community" and hint that Facebook's efforts to fix things will be good for everyone - users, developers, Facebook itself, and even the world. The F8 developer conference comes six weeks since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, revealing that the political data-mining firm inappropriately accessed the information of as many as 87 million Facebook users. Facebook has been doing damage control ever since. For Zuckerberg, that's meant repeated apologies to users and lawmakers, two days of congressional questioning about whether and how the company protects its users' privacy.
