FaceApp has access to the names and faces of more than 150 million people
FaceApp went viral despite the privacy questions, because before the novelty of showing us older or Younger people forget who gets our data.
After the 2018 scandal of Cambridge Analytica, where it was used to make political propaganda in the 2016 presidential campaigns in USA, the data of 50 million Facebook users was revealed; despite this, again millions of people gave their data again, in the fashion application Faceapp, which took on a new air since it was created in 2017.
In recent weeks the posts of Facebook and Instagram have been inundated with photos taken with the new fashion app FaceApp, an artificial intelligence app that takes photos uploaded by users and "Gets old" for several decades. The app looks like aging software virtual facial that the different police forces use in the face of disappeared persons, in order to update the time they have been missing.
Systems workers in cyber security They are advising you to be careful when using this application. David Shipley Con Beauceron Security said that while the product may be advertised as "free," their information is the actual price. He noted that even a picture of your face can do a lot of damage.
“It can be used to identify you and unlock things like your smartphone or other things, and you want to make sure you protect your identity. FaceApp does not alert the user that their photos have been uploaded to the cloud; nor does it specify in its policies whether the company keeps its original photo or what it is allowed to do with it ”.
Experts have said that the FaceApp photo editing app could put your photos in the hands of strangers forever.
The company released a statement where it says that the images were removed from its servers within 48 hours after the upload date and that no user data was transferred to Russia. But what we don't know; is that if the time you remain within the application, the data is saved in some kind of database.
On this occasion, many people have already made their voices heard, so that what happened in 2016 is not repeated; and that the data that was provided by people when using the application, is not used for propaganda purposes.
"This novelty is not without risks: FaceApp was developed by Russians," he wrote Bob Lord, head of security DNC. The Democrat recommends that those who have already used it immediately remove it from their phones.