Viral app FaceApp has been giving people the power to change their
facial expressions, looks, and now age for several years. But at the
same time, people have been giving FaceApp the power to use their
pictures — and names — for any purpose it wishes, for as long as it
desires.
That’s the burning question about FaceApp, a program that takes photos of people and “ages” them using artificial intelligence
.
Soon after it shot to the top of the Apple and Google store charts this week, privacy advocates began waving warning flags about the Russian-made app’s vague legalese.
And we thought we learned a lesson from Cambridge Analytica.
More than 100,000 million people have downloaded the app from Google Play. And FaceApp is now the top-ranked app on the iOS App Store in 121 countries, according to App Annie.
While according to FaceApp's terms of service people still own their own "user content" (read: face), the company owns a never-ending and irrevocable royalty-free license to do anything they want with it ... in front of whoever they wish:
Read more at: Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access To More Than 150 Million People's Faces And Names.
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That’s the burning question about FaceApp, a program that takes photos of people and “ages” them using artificial intelligence
.
Soon after it shot to the top of the Apple and Google store charts this week, privacy advocates began waving warning flags about the Russian-made app’s vague legalese.
And we thought we learned a lesson from Cambridge Analytica.
More than 100,000 million people have downloaded the app from Google Play. And FaceApp is now the top-ranked app on the iOS App Store in 121 countries, according to App Annie.
While according to FaceApp's terms of service people still own their own "user content" (read: face), the company owns a never-ending and irrevocable royalty-free license to do anything they want with it ... in front of whoever they wish:
Read more at: Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access To More Than 150 Million People's Faces And Names.
The Digest Group
Almere-Digest
EU-Digest
Insure-Digest
Turkish-Digest
For additional information, including advertising rates - e-mail:Freeplanet@protonmail.com
