#FACEAPP RUSSIAN COLLECTION FREE#
He advises users to read every app’s terms of use, pointing out that “companies often have hidden agendas to gain mass information for purposes such as teaching facial recognition algorithms, or learning connections from phone contacts.”įielding agrees that like many free services, FaceApp includes the possibility of “a large number of secondary data extractions and uses that have little to do with the function of the app itself.” Jake Moore, cybersecurity specialist at ESET warns: “When anything is free, you must always ask yourself what is in it for the owners of the app and how do they make their money?” MORE FROM FORBES WhatsApp Video Calls Will Soon Support 50: This Is Why 8's The Limit For Your Security By Kate O'Flaherty However, that doesn’t mean FaceApp is risk free-with any free service, such as Google and Facebook, you are giving up some data in exchange for its use. “Reading between the lines, the purpose of improving the app probably includes training the algorithm itself, which has little impact on the individual who has uploaded their photo,” she explains. Rowenna Fielding, head of individual rights and ethics at Protecture says FaceApp’s updated privacy policy is “pretty solid and reassuring” because it states explicitly that uploaded photos will only be used for the app itself and not shared or re-used for any other reason. Breaking down FaceApp’s privacy policyįaceApp’s privacy policy has been recently updated to reflect some more stringent controls and I asked a privacy expert to take a look. All photos are encrypted using a key stored locally on your device-they are only temporarily cached on the app’s cloud servers during the editing process. Meanwhile, he underscored that FaceApp deletes photos from its cloud servers within 24 to 48 hours after they are last edited.
When Goncharov and I exchanged some emails and he told me: “We do not use the photos for any reason other than to provide the editing functionality.” At the same time, it wouldn’t be crazy to think an app that collected people’s photos might store it for use in the future for, I don’t know, facial recognition? Again, Goncharov says no.
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