The real project of Facebook is to map people around the world and project the possible future of them, tracking people around the world by facial reconigtion.
After the 10 years challenge, the company projected the possible aging from now on, and traced a probability of future, based on previous particular signs in people's faces. What happened is that FaceApp projected the future, the possibility of exchange sexual gender, making possibility of traces possible future daughters and sons, trace younger faces, reconizing previous actions, but the older instant app is the most interesting and more real trace.
The reality is that, from now, Facebook sold the informations to companies to business enterprises, searching the possibility of future customers, and giving information to advertisers, for possible money exchange on business, service and governmental/security level of map society.
some of the silliest advisers tells it's a Russian consultancy to promote a world wide tracking, but the reality is that the servers and the clouds are in USA and the sided Facebook, Instagram, advisers are interested in the information that FaceApp is promoting. FaceApp is tracking in Russia, but the Amazon servers will hardly have the information given to Russia intelligence, while Facebook is tracking these informations for a long time.
The high level military intelligence is promoted by a civilian app that is put to download and spread like virus in society, adopted first by actors and celebrities gone to a new level of viral use, and information and data stealing, while you give permission to the app access your photos and informations, the cell phone number and the e-mail information.
The Data will be processed in an international server and will save your data with your interested photo to proccess and save it for future use for a political and military intelligence.
Than the promotion of drug market, political tracking, interested on security and military psyops operation, will open sources to new level of controlling the interest of population, as the asthetic program of beauty products, marked of drugstores, asthetic surgeries, previous depression picture figuring how politics will be used to enslave the population to a possible massive mind control program.
But governments will be more interested on it, to promote future operations of possible treatening on national security.
Previously the government and military should have your picture and use intelligence to trace personal signals to create a possible sketch, but now, the own society is giving this information, with the possibility of use of beard, take off beard, age, chance hairs colors, etc.
What can companies and criminals do with your data from FaceApp?
https://www.tellerreport.com/tech/2019-07-16---what-can-companies-and-criminals-do-with-your-data-from-faceapp--.HyG070EjZS.html
With the popular FaceApp you can look older on photos, but you also give your photos and personal information to a company that can sell them. What exactly can the buyers of this information do with it?
With the popular FaceApp you can look older on photos, but you also give your photos and personal information to a company that can sell them. What exactly can the buyers of this information do with it?
What is FaceApp?
FaceApp is a popular smartphone app that allows you to place a filter on selfies. This allows you to see, for example, what you would look like as an old man or woman. The popularity of the app has grown in recent weeks and is also being used by many celebrities.
What exactly does FaceApp collect?
FaceApp collects and saves all photos that users take. In addition, data that identifies your phone is also stored, along with cookies, log files, your location and your app use.
What does FaceApp do with this data?
All your data is shared with "companies in a group that FaceApp is part of, or companies that can later join this group". They are officially used to improve the services of all these companies.
Because other parties can freely join this group, in theory every company has access to the data. This allows an external party to also buy your data. FaceApp does not disclose which institutions have been allowed to look at the data so far.
Could that data be misused?
If the FaceApp data falls into the wrong hands, it can be used to sketch an extensive profile of your online behavior. Your photo and the identification code of your phone can be linked to data from, for example, data leaks, to identify your interests. Even leaked e-mail addresses, credit cards and passwords can be linked to this profile.
By sharing cookies from your device, even your surfing behavior on the internet could be mapped. Such data can be misused for, for example, identity theft or espionage.
Does this really happen?
No specific situations are known in which data from FaceApp were misused by, for example, crime. However, the amount of processed data and the privacy conditions make this possible in theory.
Cyber criminals have in the past exploited leaked data in a similar way to, for example, steal identities or hack accounts.
Surely tech companies collect data more often? Why is there so much fuss at FaceApp?
FaceApp is made by Wireless Labs, a company based in Russia. The company does not have a European office, which makes it difficult to invoke the European privacy law. The company is probably not responding to requests to hand over or delete your data. In addition, FaceApp will not tell you where your data is at the moment.
The fact that the company is in Russia is also a source of suspicion among critics. Government hackers in the country have been accused several times of hacking attacks and attempts to spread disinformation on social media. Antivirus company Kaspersky even had to move its headquarters from Russia, after allegations that the company cooperates with the local government.
How do I prevent my data from being misused?
The data collected by FaceApp can no longer be removed from the company. You can choose to remove the app and no longer use it, to prevent Wireless Labs from collecting new data from you.
In addition, with future free apps it is wise to see where the creator is and what happens to data. An app's privacy statement often states what the developer collects and what it is used for. If a company is located in Europe, then the maker must adhere to a strict privacy law, which means you can always request that your data be deleted.
FaceApp: Are security concerns around viral app founded? | #TheCube
https://www.euronews.com/2019/07/17/faceapp-are-security-concerns-around-viral-app-founded-thecube
If you’ve been scrolling through Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook this week, chances are you have seen photographs of your friends looking older, younger, or even changing in gender overnight.
The app they are using, FaceApp, has been enjoying a boost in popularity this week and counts celebrities such as Drake and Gordon Ramsey among its 80 million users.
This week, it overtook Instagram and Whatsapp on the Apple App Store's top chart as the most downloaded app, prompting CEO Yaroslav Goncharov to post on Facebook: "Change, it's nice."
But many users on social media have raised concerns surrounding privacy and facial recognition — do these concerns have any basis?
What is FaceApp?
FaceApp was founded in 2017 by Wireless Lab, a company based in St Petersburg, Russia. That year, the app was widely criticized for “racist” selfie filters; an option labelled as “hot” seemingly lightened users’ skin tones.
A few months later, users were outraged to see that the app had introduced a series of “ethnicity change” filters, where users could alter photos to appear “black,” “Indian,” or “Asian.”
Two years on, the app was back in the spotlight and some social media users were wondering why it has gone viral, seemingly out of nowhere.
One rumour that was circulating alleged the app may be grabbing users’ photos from their phones and uploading them to the FaceApp server without asking.
While there is as yet no evidence to support these claims, people took to Twitter to voice concerns.
What does FaceApp's privacy policy say?
FaceApp states in its privacy policy that they use “third-party analytics tools” which “collect information sent by your device or our Service, including the web pages you visit, add-ons, and other information that assists us in improving the Service.”
The policy highlights that the purpose of this is to “measure traffic and usage trends for the Service,” and reiterates that "we will not rent or sell your information to third parties outside FaceApp.”
But in the same section it is also written that the app shares information with “third-party organizations that help us provide the Service to you” and deliver targeted ads.
The privacy policy, French security researcher Baptiste Robert told Euronews, is "pretty vague".
However, he also said: "We don’t have an answer in the how [photos are stored] but we can see that only the photo you are working on is uploaded to their servers.
"They are not uploading the gallery of the user to their server, only the current photo."
However, Robert highlighted that the company is not General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant, "which is an issue."
GDPR safeguards EU citizens' personal online data. It states that to be able to use an app, an account must be made on the app — FaceApp, however, does not require an account for users to process their pictures.
What has FaceApp said?
In a statement to Euronews, FaceApp said that only photos uploaded by the user are sent to the FaceApp cloud, where most of the photo processing for the app is performed.
“We never transfer any other images from the phone to the cloud,” the statement said.
A photo uploaded to the cloud may be stored for reasons of “performance and traffic,” and “most images are deleted from our servers within 48 hours from the upload date.”
The statement reiterated that FaceApp does not “sell or share any user data with any third parties,” adding.
“Even though the core R&D team is located in Russia, the user data is not transferred to Russia,” it added.
FaceApp also commented on concerns that photos from phone galleries were uploaded to their servers after a user granted access to the photos: “We don't do that. We upload only a photo selected for editing.”
To upload or not to upload?
James Whateley, a strategy partner with Digitas UK, weighed in on the issue, telling Euronews: "I just think there's something veering on the dishonest when an app parades itself as a bit of fun, not unlike your average ephemeral Snapchat filter, while quietly removing you of all your rights to your own likeness.
"The terms aren't that dissimilar to the Facebooks and Instagrams of this world but at least with them, you know what you're signing up for.
"With FaceApp, the value 'exchange' is not explicit at all. And there's no opt-out either."
Robert highlighted the danger of uploading photos to any app: "Uploading your face to a random app is a privacy nightmare. People shouldn’t do that."
FaceApp: Is The Russian Face-Aging App A Danger To Your Privacy?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/07/17/faceapp-is-the-russian-face-aging-app-a-danger-to-your-privacy/#5dcdbcfe2755
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.
After going viral in 2017, and amassing more than 80 million active users, it’s blowing up again thanks to the so-called FaceApp Challenge, in which celebs (and everyone else) have been adding years to their visage with the app’s old-age filter. The app uses artificial intelligence to create a rendering of what you might look like in a few decades on your iPhone or Android device.
But one tweet set off a minor internet panic this week, when a developer warned that the app could be taking all the photos from your phone and uploading them to its servers without any obvious permission from the user.
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.
Storm in an internet teacup?
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 (real name Baptiste Robert) downloaded the app and checked where it was sending users’ faces. The French cyber expert found FaceApp only took submitted photos—those that you want the software to transform—back up to company servers.
And where are those servers based? Mostly America, not Russia. A cursory look at hosting records confirmed to Forbes that this was true: The servers for FaceApp.io were based in Amazon data centers in the U.S. The company told Forbes that some servers were hosted by Google too, across other countries, including Ireland and Singapore. And, as noted by Alderson, the app also uses third-party code, and so will reach out to their servers, but again these are based in the U.S. and Australia.
Of course, given the developer company is based in St. Petersburg, the faces will be viewed and processed in Russia. The data in those Amazon data centers could be mirrored back to computers in Russia. It’s unclear how much access FaceApp employees have to those images, and Forbes hadn’t received comment from the company at the time of publication about just what it does with uploaded faces.
So while Russian intelligence or police agencies could demand FaceApp hand over data if they believed it was lawful, they’d have a considerably harder time getting that information from Amazon in the U.S.
Permission to land on your phone
So is there a privacy concern? FaceApp could operate differently. It could, for instance, process the images on your device, rather than take submitted photos to an outside server. As iOS security researcher Will Strafach said: “I am sure many folks are not cool with that.”
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.
Users who are (understandably) concerned about the app having permission to access any photos at all might want to look at all the tools they have on their smartphone. It’s likely many have access to photos and an awful lot more. Your every move via location tracking, for instance. To change permissions, either delete the app, or go to app settings on your iPhone or Android and change what data tools are allowed to access.
FaceApp responds
Forbes contacted FaceApp founder Yaroslav Goncahrov, who provided a statement Wednesday morning. He said that user data is not transferred to Russia and that "most of the photo processing in the cloud."
"We only upload a photo selected by a user for editing. We never transfer any other images from the phone to the cloud," Goncharov added.
"We might store an uploaded photo in the cloud. The main reason for that is performance and traffic: we want to make sure that the user doesn't upload the photo repeatedly for every edit operation. Most images are deleted from our servers within 48 hours from the upload date."
He said that users can also request that all user data be deleted. And users can do this by going to settings, then support and opt to report a bug, using the word "privacy" in the subject line message. Goncahrov said this should help speed up the process.
And he added: "We don't sell or share any user data with any third parties."
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| Together FaceApp and Instagram, they are in order to steal your data and sell it to government to promote governmental programs and map soceity about geographical positions and projection of physical characteristics for future. |
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| A Webcam or a Front Camera conected to Internet can be revealed by military inteligence and trace your places, via connection, facial reconigtion and government strategy. |
Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access To More Than 150 Million People's Faces And Names
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/07/17/viral-app-faceapp-now-owns-access-to-more-than-150-million-peoples-faces-and-names/#6c69a25862f1
Everyone's seen them: friends posting pictures of themselves now, and years in the future.
Viral app FaceApp has been giving people the power to change their facial expressions, looks, and now age for several years. But at the same time, people have been giving FaceApp the power to use their pictures — and names — for any purpose it wishes, for as long as it desires.
And we thought we learned a lesson from Cambridge Analytica.
More than 100,000 million people have downloaded the app from Google Play. And FaceApp is now the top-ranked app on the iOS App Store in 121 countries, according to App Annie.
While according to FaceApp's terms of service people still own their own "user content" (read: face), the company owns a never-ending and irrevocable royalty-free license to do anything they want with it ... in front of whoever they wish:
You grant FaceApp a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display your User Content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your User Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed, without compensation to you. When you post or otherwise share User Content on or through our Services, you understand that your User Content and any associated information (such as your [username], location or profile photo) will be visible to the public.
FaceApp terms of use
That may not be dangerous and your likeness may stay on Amazon servers in America, as Forbes has determined, but they still own a license to do whatever they want with it. That doesn't mean the app's Russian parent company, Wireless Labs, will offer your face to the FSB, but it does have consequences, as PhoneArena's Peter Kostadinov says:
You might end up on a billboard somewhere in Moscow, but your face will most likely end up training some AI facial-recognition algorithm.
Peter Kostadinov
Whether that matters to you or not is your decision.
But what we have learned in the past few years about viral Facebook apps is that the data they collect is not always used for the purposes that we might assume. And, that the data collected is not always stored securely, safely, privately.
Once something is uploaded to the cloud, you've lost control whether or not you've given away legal license to your content. That's one reason why privacy-sensitive Apple is doing most of its AI work on-device.
And it's a good reason to be wary when any app wants access and a license to your digital content and/or identity.
As former Rackspace manager Rob La Gesse mentioned today:
To make FaceApp actually work, you have to give it permissions to access your photos - ALL of them. But it also gains access to Siri and Search .... Oh, and it has access to refreshing in the background - so even when you are not using it, it is using you.
Rob La Gesse
The app doesn't have to be doing anything nefarious today to make you cautious about giving it that much access to your most personal computing device.
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