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

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Post by luckylion »

cmarschner wrote: post #119
bhouston wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The language from their terms of service ( https://faceapp.com/terms ) is this: > 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 y…

Not in Europe. I’m sure lawyers are excited.

Can you elaborate? I was under the impression that you can give permanent content licenses, is there something stopping that in general, or something related to apps, or pictures?

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Post by asdff »

penagwin wrote: post #115
ajconway wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On iOS is't possible to ask the system to present a photo picker on behalf of the app without requiring a permission to look into your photos.

I'm not an iOS developer but if it does exist not many apps use it. Snapchat, MS Teams, Discord, and a few others don't do it by default at least.

Apple really should force their hand and mandate that this is the only way to get a photo upload. I hate all the sweeping permissions nearly every app for iOS demands. Where's the sandboxing?

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Post by oarabbus_ »

stunt wrote: post #16

The coverage on FaceApp and the way they talk about it is ridiculous. When it comes for instance to Snapchat's numbers, the coverage is about the success of the company. How is FaceApp different than all other apps and social networks that are storing all your photos with location and tags to your friends except that FaceApp is a Russian company? I'm not defending FaceApp. I don't use social networks either for the s…

>How is FaceApp different than all other apps and social networks that are storing all your photos with location and tags to your friends except that FaceApp is a Russian company?

This is a pretty nonsense statement to make.

Maybe the fact they are Russian.

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Post by asdff »

2_listerine_pls wrote: post #56
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Yet, Forbes chooses to talk about FaceApp. https://www.forbes.com/search/?q=facebook

Obviously meant that there are many other elephants in the room and but they decided to promote an alarming article about this new app that records your photos!!! Is it so difficult for You to understand?

You want every article they put out to be about all the elephants at once? Because they've already put out articles about all the other elephants and continue to do so. This one just joined the zoo is all.

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Post by godelski »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #102
godelski wrote: post #44

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One people brush off and another people don't. So if you want to teach people about how and why data is important it is easier to do so when using Russia an an example (assuming you're a Westerner). Most people still have a fair amount of trust in US companies and don't believe they would abuse their power. Call it tribalism it whatever, but that's how it is. But to us in tech it's pretty obvious that even if Snapcha…

It's because Russia has been demonised in USA's propaganda over decades. They're selling trying to do the same with China now, except it's more for direct commercial reasons than to protect the ideal of Capitalism as it was before. I grew up getting a lot of "evil commies" messages in US American media and I'm not even in USA (I'm from UK).

I mean China does have connection camps and quite an Orwellian society.

Saying this doesn't mean I condone what the US is doing with Latin Americans right now, but the way you frame it suggests that China and Russia aren't doing things that many of us in the West find reprehensible. They are authoritarian regimes after all. (Again, that's not saying the West doesn't also do these things, but I do think there is a clear difference in degrees. I don't think my belief is uncommon either).

More importantly, the comment comes off like we shouldn't criticize them. Why not? (We should also criticize the West, because frankly that an essential part of democracy)

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Post by j4kp07 »

oarabbus_ wrote: post #173
stunt wrote: post #16

The coverage on FaceApp and the way they talk about it is ridiculous. When it comes for instance to Snapchat's numbers, the coverage is about the success of the company. How is FaceApp different than all other apps and social networks that are storing all your photos with location and tags to your friends except that FaceApp is a Russian company? I'm not defending FaceApp. I don't use social networks either for the s…

>How is FaceApp different than all other apps and social networks that are storing all your photos with location and tags to your friends except that FaceApp is a Russian company? This is a pretty nonsense statement to make. Maybe the fact they are Russian.

> Maybe the fact they are Russian.

Xenophobic much?

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Post by eitland »

pbosko wrote: post #169
eitland wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I grew up getting a lot of "evil commies" messages in US American media and I'm not even in USA There's more than one reason for that, here is one that might be easy to overlook when someone is critizising USA with good reason: America is not perfect but as a citizen and compared to the bad old commies it was mostly really good. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago

There is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

> There is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

Between this:

>> ... when someone is critizising USA with good reason:

and this:

>> ... but as a citizen and compared to the bad old commies it was mostly ...

I feel my comment is still pretty safe.

You see, there is often a reason I use all those weasel words; otherwise it would be hard to poknt out that something can be far from ideal and something else can still be really much worse.

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Post by garysahota93 »

Wow, that license agreement it brutal. What sucks is that because they have access to the whole photo library, even if I don't want my face on it, they can still get my face via my friends' (or parents') phones that have taken pictures of me in the past. Because we are all connected, it makes it really hard to not be sucked into this (even if you don't participate)

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Post by rolltiide »

lechiffre10 wrote: post #164

I find it incredibly ironic that it took me about 30 seconds to go to the author's profile, see him plaster all the social media platforms we can reach him on. Went to his Instagram and could tell where he lives, where's staying at when he travels, that he enjoys walks with his mom in Centennial beach in Delta, BC and what he does for hobbies. All this in under a minute and yet here we are panicking over a Russian Co…

> I've been a journalist, analyst, and corporate executive, and have chronicled the rise of the mobile economy.

Thats because he needs to be able to be contacted to gain outsized benefits from society. Writing about this stuff "first" gets you tapped for corporate executive roles or lucrative expert witness roles in judicial proceedings. It is called "thought leadership"

He is much more objective about doing this than malleable people fearing missing out

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