FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces and Names

break_the_bank wrote: post #3

It's worse when it has access to your picture because a friend thought it'd be funny. In that situation the App gets my picture without my consent.

Same

Re: FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces and Names

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Post by alunchbox » Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 1:52 PM UTC

Hmm. Would it be possible to run these Apps in a VM like container? allow it access a dummy, empty folder to read from somewhat of a container for all apps? then there would be a manual transfer process between the shared folders after you've saved an image?

So when downloading an App it will ask would you want to run this in an isolated environment? and you can, so if it tries to scan over your photo gallery it will have an empty folder etc..

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Post by Rannath » Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 1:52 PM UTC

Aren't contracts with unlimited time periods non-binding? I was under the impression that any contract that said perpetual anything could be trivially disregarded. Or is that a regional thing?

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Post by penagwin » Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 1:59 PM UTC

alunchbox wrote: post #5

Hmm. Would it be possible to run these Apps in a VM like container? allow it access a dummy, empty folder to read from somewhat of a container for all apps? then there would be a manual transfer process between the shared folders after you've saved an image? So when downloading an App it will ask would you want to run this in an isolated environment? and you can, so if it tries to scan over your photo gallery it will…

This is a scoping issue. On iOS devices at least no app has access to your photo gallery unless they explicitly prompt you for permission.

That said, many apps need access to the photo gallery - say I want to put a screenshot into discord. The issue is that now Discord has access to ALL of my photos.

There needs to be more scoping options. "Allow access to previous 12 photos while you're using the app" kinda deal.

Re: FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces and Names

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Post by bhouston » Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 1:59 PM UTC

It should be worth millions to have pictures of 150M faces and associate them with names. If I had that I would sell it to the people running the in-store camera networks that identify customers into demographic categories and offer them this so that they can associate real identities.

Another data broker, now of people's faces. I am surprised that this isn't yet done by the free make-up apps or even by snap chat.

I guess there are people crawling Facebook and probably other profile services like LinkedIn, etc. But probably crawling these is not legal to resell.

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Post by benjaminva » Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 2:00 PM UTC

break_the_bank wrote: post #3

It's worse when it has access to your picture because a friend thought it'd be funny. In that situation the App gets my picture without my consent.

Do friends need to enter the name along with the picture? How about the age?

I haven't tested the app myself yet and probably will not.

Re: FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces and Names

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Post by kinkrtyavimoodh » Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 2:00 PM UTC

break_the_bank wrote: post #3

It's worse when it has access to your picture because a friend thought it'd be funny. In that situation the App gets my picture without my consent.

This is the reason I have just stopped bothering about privacy. I meticulously guard which apps I share my phonebook with, while other idiots share their entire contacts folder (including my details) en-masse to apps like TrueCaller.

It just feels so futile to even care.