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The general public didn't know that the application was saying "give us your name and face and we can do whatever we want with it..." They had no idea that this

The general public didn't know that the application was saying "give us your name and face and we can do whatever we want with it..." They had no idea that this was even a thing. I would bet hard earned money that the average person installed this application because a friend told them and they were curious. This bit about what happens to their image and what data does the app save locally verses pushing out to the network, etc. is something that never even crossed their mind. If there was a window with legalese they ignored it as they have been trained to do (by Microsoft, Apple and every other commercial software product they ever purchased). Certainly they didn't go clicking around and looking for it.

phkahler 7y ago
>> The general public didn't know that the application was saying "give us your name and face and we can do whatever we want with it..." They had no idea that this was even a thing. Because EULAs and "terms of service" and "privacy policy" are all bullshit that nobody reads and should not have legally binding consequences or obligations. Peope have come to treat those things like a simple OK button but the law says otherwise. This company could produce deep-fakes with users heads on them and claim it's OK by their ToS and they might be right.