FaceApp isn't taking photos of your face and sending them back to Russia for some nefarious project. At least that's what current evidence suggests
Share to twitterFaceApp is a massively popular face-altering app for Android and iOS, but there are privacy concerns about its AI tech.No, FaceApp isn’t taking photos of your face and taking them back to Russia for some nefarious project. At least that’s what current evidence suggests.
The tweeter, Joshua Nozzi, said later he was trying to raise a flag about FaceApp having access to all photos, even if it wasn’t uploading them to a server owned by the Russian company.This all turns out to be another of the Web’s many storm-in-teacup moments. A security researcher who goes by the pseudonym Elliot Alderson downloaded the app and checked where it was sending users’ faces.
It’s unclear how well FaceApp’s AI would process photos on the device rather than more powerful servers. FaceApp improves its face-changing algorithms by learning from the photos people submit. This could be done on the device, rather than the server, as machine learning features are available on Android and iOS, but FaceApp may want to stick to using its own computers to train its AI.
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