FaceApp is a simple photo editing app that’s going viral for the second time in two years. The app captivated internet users in back in 2017 with its fun and unsettling selfie filters that included gender-swap, and briefly, blackface.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has called for a federal investigation into FaceApp, saying the Russian-operated mobile application “could pose national security and privacy risks for millions of US citizens.”
Celebrities and many other people used it to alter photographs to make themselves look 20 years older. This has raised privacy concerns, as the US are uploading photographs and device-related data to a service operated by a company statued in Russia. The image modifications performed by FaceApp—which calls itself an “AI Face (artificial intelligence) Editor”—are done on the company’s servers instead of on user device
The app now warns users that “Each photo you select for editing will be uploaded to our servers for image processing and face transformation.”
That prominent warning apparently didn’t exist until an update to the app this week. FaceApp did already warn users about the photo uploading in its terms of use, which also say that users “grant FaceApp a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable sub-licensable license to use” their data. Good Grief the importance of reading is at an all high be sure read your subscription agreement contracts of everything never know what’s really goin
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