It was all fun and games and filters that make you look 90 until...
that your favorite viral old person filter app, FaceApp, has close ties to Russia. Which is theoretically fine, except for the fact that FaceApp also appears to gain uninhibited access to the photo libraries of those who hit download, and then stores them on external servers. Its user agreement entitles developers perpetual rights to those images. Sounds suspicious, right?Right. But don't go full Mueller Report just yet.
Also, after being flooded with user complaints, FaceApp has publicly addressed privacy concerns by emphatically stating that user images areuploaded to a Russia-based server, and, perhaps most crucially, it's entirely possible to play around with FaceApp's filters without"logging in." A majority of users do this, and their data is therefore inaccessible to developers.
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