FaceApp’s popularity-Privacy concerns...
Release in January 2017
What is #Faceapp
FaceApp is an app that lets users upload their photos, and uses artificial intelligence to change their looks, either older or younger.
The faces of more than 150 million people—and whatever other information they shared on FaceApp—is now owned by a Russia-based company. It can use that data how they please.
When users approve the app, they not only give away access to every photo on their phone, but they also enable the company to use those photos however they want,
Which technology are used.:
The app uses neural networks — a type of artificial intelligence — to edit the photos.What it can do.:
1. it can do more than just age you. The app can literally put a smile
on your face, make you look younger, or swap your gender, too.
2. Present your face for recognition on a passport, a driver’s license, to sell it to criminal activity and points unknown,
Popularity.:
It’s one of the most downloaded apps, and fans and celebrities are now
using the hashtag #faceappchallenge to share their result photos.
Histry behind its popularity.:
Launched in 2017, FaceApp isn’t necessarily new. But it’s making headlines again because the app has gotten good — like, eerily good — at showing users what they’ll look like when they age.Did you read its policies?
According to FaceApp’s privacy policy, FaceApp may share User Content and your information (including but not limited to, information from cookies, log files, device identifiers, location data, and usage data) with businesses that are legally part of the same group of companies that FaceApp is part of, or that become part of that group (Affiliates).
Official website.:faceapp.com
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