A new Facebook feature that lets users clear their browser history just got sidetracked by concerns that it would also allow sex traffickers to cover their tracks.
A state judge in Texas on Thursday temporarily blocked the planned rollout of the Off-Facebook Activity feature in the US at the request of a woman who claims in a lawsuit the company didn’t do enough to save her from being trafficked after meeting predators on the social network as a teenager.
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