FaceApp has gone viral again with a feature that makes users look elderly, but experts say it may pose security concerns.
People are having fun making themselves look older with an app called FaceApp, but they might also be facing a host of cybersecurity concerns.
Cybersecurity experts have raised several red flags about FaceApp. It’s made by a Wireless Lab, a small company based in Russia. This data included everything from call and text logs to location information — and the data was analyzed by the now-shuttered British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica and used to target advertising to social media users during the 2016 presidential elections.
FaceApp previously achieved popularity for features that let people makes themselves look like another gender or lighten their skin tone. But the latest ageing filter has gone viral. The company’s privacy policy does not explain how it safeguards user content stored on its servers, which are reportedly located in the United States. However, the company claims that any data collected is aggregated “so that it cannot reasonably be used to identify any particular individual User.”
“Any app gathering data points that could lead to facial recognition should be of concern especially when it’s being used by government agencies, foreign companies or foreign intelligence,” Siciliano said.Unhappy? You won’t be able to sue FaceApp People who downloaded and used the app automatically agreed to a mandatory arbitration clause — meaning they waived their right to take any legal complaints to court.
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