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

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Post by kofejnik »

blaser-waffle wrote: post #198
adventured wrote: post #148

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Then why have US tech companies like Facebook taken so much flack in the past year for privacy issues? The fact that that has been the case, contradicts your underlying point. Further, on a personal level it likely depends on where you're located. As an American, it matters to me whether the company doing the spying is located in California or Russia. If you're Russian, you might particularly care if the company in q…

> Russia is a hyper regressive, anti liberal, anti democratic, low human rights, dictatorship. My interests are particularly not served by allowing companies from Russia to spy on me. Russia is also on the other side of the globe, has a GDP that is less than Italy (despite having way more people and land), and is, essentially, irrelevant outside of online trolling and Agi-Prop. Meanwhile the person who is going to ki…

if Russia is so irrelevant, what's with all this hysteria about Trump colluding with Russians?

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Post by hello_asm_world »

So here is the irony. You can use the app without revealing your identity (no emails, facebook creds). However, if you want them to immediately delete your data ("most" data within 48 hours) you need to EMAIL them with a subject line "PRIVACY". So now I add an EMAIL to the Face. Perhaps I can send a mock email id but what about those that are not that aware but care about their privacy? They probably have now identified their photos, oh US needs laws, this is a bipartisan issue

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Post by kofejnik »

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).

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Post by barronlroth »

Raphmedia wrote: post #43

Every one I know is already using either Facebook Messenger (which has the same face scanning features) and/or Snapchat (which also has this feature). This is not new. I've been using FaceApp since its release. There are a lot of other similar apps that I've used in the past. Especially makeup simulator apps. BeautyPlus, YouCal, InstaBeauty, BeautyCam, Facetune, Photo Plastic, Visage Lab, etc.

I fully disagree. FaceApp value is that it does its job significantly better than the US competition. Users have the "old" filter on Snapchat and Facebook for years at this point, but FaceApp really has taken it to the next level. Their overnight success is not surprising. I'd tell you to try it for yourself, but I understand the hesitation.

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idop wrote: post #72
skizm wrote: post #67

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What argument do you use to prove them wrong?

I usually say something to the tune of "everyone has something to hide, that's why we put clothes on; that's why we don't go around broadcasting our medical test results; that's why we don't reveal our salaries and benefits to our colleagues (or anyone); that's why we don't give our address to anyone that asks for it. It doesn't mean we've done something bad or we're criminals, it just means we're human. But if you h…

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Post by kofejnik »

spraak wrote: post #183
oarabbus_ wrote: post #173

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>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.

Why is it a non sense statement, and why does it matter that they are Russian, when US companies are already known to do the same?

it's 13 August 1961, you are in Berlin, and they are starting to build the wall. Where would you rather be, in the West, or in the East? This is why it matters that they are Russian

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Post by kofejnik »

armandososa wrote: post #152
Raphmedia wrote: post #75

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As someone who is not an American citizen and does not live in the United-States, I get the same fears and issues from companies based in the US. I distrust the American and Russian governments and companies equally.

As a Mexican, I honestly distrust Trump more than Putin.

and that is a serious mistake, I believe

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

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Post by Raphmedia »

barronlroth wrote: post #204
Raphmedia wrote: post #43

Every one I know is already using either Facebook Messenger (which has the same face scanning features) and/or Snapchat (which also has this feature). This is not new. I've been using FaceApp since its release. There are a lot of other similar apps that I've used in the past. Especially makeup simulator apps. BeautyPlus, YouCal, InstaBeauty, BeautyCam, Facetune, Photo Plastic, Visage Lab, etc.

I fully disagree. FaceApp value is that it does its job significantly better than the US competition. Users have the "old" filter on Snapchat and Facebook for years at this point, but FaceApp really has taken it to the next level. Their overnight success is not surprising. I'd tell you to try it for yourself, but I understand the hesitation.

As I said, I've been using it since its release. It's not any significantly better than it was back then.

Snapchat's are also very similar in quality. Before this whole craze about the old filter, people trended on the gender change filter. That one was on Snapchat and quickly became a meme. It was even more amazing since it was a video filter, so you could move around and stay as your opposite gender.

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Post by thanatos_dem »

jklinger410 wrote: post #129
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…

>except that FaceApp is a Russian company? Well, I mean, nothing. Except that FaceApp is a Russian company. What was different about Huawei? Except that it was a Chinese company. And here's the thing, I don't even necessarily disagree with the worry around these foreign companies. They are outside of our jurisdiction and these countries have been known to use companies on the behalf of their governments to perform in…

> What was different about Huawei? Except that it was a Chinese company.

Well that and they blatantly steal from other companies, disregard copyrights and patents, and have the backing of the Chinese government protecting them from any real repercussions.

They don’t even try to hide it with their product naming. Take the “MateBook X Pro” for example - https://consumer.huawei.com/en/laptops/matebook-x-pro/

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