There is no threat model for an iPhone app to do nefarious things in an App Store distributed app on a non-jailbroken phone. At most, FaceApp grabs the picture you uploaded and some minor meta-data that every app using an analytics tool (read: all of them) collects. This is political grand-standing at best, and would be a non-issue if you replaced the geographic location of the dev team with any other countries I get…
The FBI considers FaceApp to be a potential counterintelligence threat [pdf]
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#22Seems like the only thing uploaded is your picture. I'd be curious to see what data it actually collects from your phone otherwise but just a photo feels pretty innocuous
Having a database of peoples picture is a huge asset for Russian intelligence. They can use facial recognition to enhance their visual surveillance efforts.
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#23There is no threat model for an iPhone app to do nefarious things in an App Store distributed app on a non-jailbroken phone. At most, FaceApp grabs the picture you uploaded and some minor meta-data that every app using an analytics tool (read: all of them) collects. This is political grand-standing at best, and would be a non-issue if you replaced the geographic location of the dev team with any other countries I get…
Re: The FBI considers FaceApp to be a potential counterintelligence threat [pdf]
#24Seems like the only thing uploaded is your picture. I'd be curious to see what data it actually collects from your phone otherwise but just a photo feels pretty innocuous
Having a database of peoples picture is a huge asset for Russian intelligence. They can use facial recognition to enhance their visual surveillance efforts.
Then there's LinkedIn's public profiles, Github's public profiles, Twitter's profiles. This is just privacy theatre.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well Twitter and Facebook are American companies so it's obviously patriotic to give them your image and data. (/s)
It's certainly better than giving your face to sketchy apps from Russia or China.
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#27It's not clear what is the potential threat this specific app introduces. A nation state can easily perform facial recognition on the majority of the human race by scraping social media.
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#28It's not clear what is the potential threat this specific app introduces. A nation state can easily perform facial recognition on the majority of the human race by scraping social media.
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#29Plenty of chinese apps under "utility" category is flooding the us consumers...
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Are you sure Faceapp grabs only the photo you uploaded? “At most” implies it literally can’t grab more than that. But it seems like it can. It has access to all your photos, not just your camera.
Yes, I am sure that's all it can grab (on the iphone). Anyone telling you otherwise is fear-mongering Edit: Obligatory “why are you booing me, I’m right?”
We have seen lots of examples of ad analytics SDKs that push the iPhone beyond its intended sandbox. Most of them have been banned, but some operated for years before getting banned. It would be a disservice to brush away those concerns as fearmongering.