The face app challenge has swept across social media, but is it invading your privacy from rich TV studios in Hollywood you're watching
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The face editing app face app is able to alter users images through AI technology
Making them appear younger changing their gender giving them different hair colors and more recently showing what they might look like in the future
old
very old
Warning this might trigger an existential crisis, huh?
It's okay I embrace it age gracefully hashtag
And while this particular feature went viral
The app itself has a bit of a controversial past in
2017 the app added a feature to make a face appear hotter and more attractive by
Lightening users skin tone and this was quickly dubbed as racist by a lot of people founder and CEO
Yaroslav Goncharov apologized saying we are deeply sorry for this unquestionably serious issue
It is an unfortunate side effect of the underlying neural network caused by the training set bias not intended behavior
to medicate the issue
We have renamed the effect exclude any positive connotation associated with it and only a few years later the app went viral again
After celebrities began posting old-age photos as the trend caught on people started warning their friends about language included in the apps User Agreement
Which reads you grant face app a perpetual irrevocable
non-exclusive royalty-free
worldwide
license to use reproduce and modify adapt publish translate create derivative works from
Distribute publicly perform and display your User Content in any name user name or likeness?
Provided in connection with your User Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed without compensation to you
Bashar tweeted, by the way, you all know face app is a Russian company, right?
Just making sure so the fact that the app is made by a Russian company based in saint-petersburg
Wouldn't be as scary if there weren't already a lot of information
Via the Muller report regarding Russian involvement in the recent election, and the country's alleged interest in manipulate
American users on social media
But 2po concerns face app told TechCrunch, even though the core rnd team is located in Russia
The user data is not transferred to Russia
The company also said it only uses the photo that is uploaded and will remove data from servers at users requests
Listen, whatever the truth is here. This whole thing is definitely a wake-up call for a lot of people
These privacy policies are actually not that different from any other app you download everything from health apps to weather apps can collect your data
according to USA Today
Facebook has been selling our data to advertisers and other data companies for years
Snapchat sends your photos to remote servers before they are
Automatically deleted an instagram has access to your location and your camera and well, it's easy to put all the blame on
Companies and governments, let's look at ourselves in this as well. What is our personal?
responsibility in all of this just like this whole thing is so exhausting to me like you don't think
Why do you think this is like a sacred space?
Why do you think the Internet is like some impenetrable you diary when you're 17, it's not
Everyone has our credit cards. Everyone has our information. Everyone has our call logs our
Pictures and you giving birth and you're like sexy selfie that you sent once like it is all available
To anyone who wants to try hard enough to get it
So do you think there will be a change in terms of how these apps to deal with privacy or are we just all doomed?
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