"It's a Russian company, so once you grant access, you are granting access to all of those companies," ABC News chief business correspondent Rebecca Jarvis explained on Good Morning America. Per FaceApp's terms and conditions, anybody who willingly uses the app also agrees (perhaps unknowingly) that its use of his or her likeness "will not result in any injury to you or to any person you authorized to act on its behalf."
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Update your settings here to see it.Įven more troubling is the fact that the company can use an individual's likeness, name, voice or even persona for commercial purposes, in conjunction with other businesses.
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A popular mobile app that allows users to edit their selfies to appear older (or even younger) has spurred security concerns and raised alarms over its Russian origins.įaceApp, which has more than 80 million users, employs artificial intelligence to transform a person's appearance "with just one tap." In recent weeks such celebrities as Drake and the Jonas Brothers have hopped on Instagram to share pictures of what they'd look like in their golden years.Īnd yet the many users who have posted these altered images on social media may not be aware that they've already shared much more than just their photos - or that the company that owns the app is based in Russia, which was recently tied to a large-scale hack that stole millions of Bulgarians' data.Īccording to FaceApp's privacy policy, the company uses third-party analytic tools that collect information from a user's device, "including the web pages you visit, add-ons, and other information that assists us in improving the Service." It can also "remotely store one or more 'device identifiers,'" which it defines as small data files that "uniquely identify your mobile device."Ĭelebrities share older versions of themselves after using FaceApp:
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