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I wonder how many people with a profile picture of their face on their Twitter/Facebook accounts are seriously concerned about this

judge2020 7y ago
Well Twitter and Facebook are American companies so it's obviously patriotic to give them your image and data. (/s)
- Wissmania 7y ago
  The photos are public too...
- corporate_shi11 7y ago
  It's certainly better than giving your face to sketchy apps from Russia or China.
  - zzzcpan 7y ago
    It's not better to have your face or other data in a database within reach of your own government. Your government has power over you, other governments do not.
    - borski 7y ago
      Other governments absolutely have power over you, just not always legally.
      - ta999999171 7y ago
        Or anywhere nearly as easily, to be fair.
    - zaphirplane 7y ago
      I need a passport and driver license
      - ta999999171 7y ago
        That one piece of paper doesn't say you do, but, I digress.
    - creato 7y ago
      The FBI very specifically is concerned about public/elected officials. You don't think other governments might be interested in data about elected officials?
  - PhasmaFelis 7y ago
    If it's in your public Facebook profile (or any other public profile), you've already given it to Russia and China.
Nextgrid 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this app collected much less data than the Facebook cancer. Facebook is not only stalking you through its main app but its other brands (Insta, WhatsApp, etc which a lot of people don't even know they're owned by FB) as well as unrelated third-party apps & websites that embed their malicious SDKs. Facebook is an industrial-scale stalking operation. I doubt FaceApp (or frankly any government actor) could pull off something like that even if they wanted to.
- baroffoos 7y ago
  The difference is which government the spyware corp is controlled by.
Merrill 7y ago
The face picture is not really the problem. The app slurps other data from the device, such as log files, cookies, identifiers, etc. Of course, this app is probably not dissimilar to many of the other 2.5 million Android, 1.8 million Apple, 0.7 million Windows, and 0.5 million Amazon apps. https://www.statista.com/statistics/276623/number-of-apps-available-in-leading-app-stores/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/276623/number-of-apps-av...

judge2020 7y ago

Well Twitter and Facebook are American companies so it's obviously patriotic to give them your image and data. (/s)

Wissmania 7y ago
The photos are public too...
corporate_shi11 7y ago
It's certainly better than giving your face to sketchy apps from Russia or China.
- zzzcpan 7y ago
  It's not better to have your face or other data in a database within reach of your own government. Your government has power over you, other governments do not.
  - borski 7y ago
    Other governments absolutely have power over you, just not always legally.
    - ta999999171 7y ago
      Or anywhere nearly as easily, to be fair.
  - zaphirplane 7y ago
    I need a passport and driver license
    - ta999999171 7y ago
      That one piece of paper doesn't say you do, but, I digress.
  - creato 7y ago
    The FBI very specifically is concerned about public/elected officials. You don't think other governments might be interested in data about elected officials?
- PhasmaFelis 7y ago
  If it's in your public Facebook profile (or any other public profile), you've already given it to Russia and China.

Nextgrid 7y ago

I wouldn't be surprised if this app collected much less data than the Facebook cancer. Facebook is not only stalking you through its main app but its other brands (Insta, WhatsApp, etc which a lot of people don't even know they're owned by FB) as well as unrelated third-party apps & websites that embed their malicious SDKs. Facebook is an industrial-scale stalking operation. I doubt FaceApp (or frankly any government actor) could pull off something like that even if they wanted to.

baroffoos 7y ago
The difference is which government the spyware corp is controlled by.

Merrill 7y ago

The face picture is not really the problem. The app slurps other data from the device, such as log files, cookies, identifiers, etc. Of course, this app is probably not dissimilar to many of the other 2.5 million Android, 1.8 million Apple, 0.7 million Windows, and 0.5 million Amazon apps. https://www.statista.com/statistics/276623/number-of-apps-available-in-leading-app-stores/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/276623/number-of-apps-av...