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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.
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…
Like bombing Japan with nuclear weapons and murdering thousands of people?
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"Globalization has happened and that changes a lot of things." This is exactly what they said before WWI.
Context (please read): https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/29/the-w... This specific way FaceApp resonates in mass and social media is quite telling.
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"Globalization has happened and that changes a lot of things." This is exactly what they said before WWI.
Context (please read): https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/29/the-w... This specific way FaceApp resonates in mass and social media is quite telling.
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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.
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…
> to run these Apps in a VM like container? That's what Xposed Framework does exactly. > allow it access a dummy, empty folder to read from That's what Xposed XPrivacyLua plugin does exactly. https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua
One could now conceivably write an app that scours the internet for these faces on social media and inject propaganda designed to tilt an election outcome one way or another.... (e.g. perhaps by looking at which group an FB user follows, just one of many examples). It wouldn't be outright sabotage, but FaceApp certainly paves the way to greater influence by a foreign government over USA's or anyone's election process…
You could do that exact same thing without FaceApp data though.
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 think FaceApp in particular strikes a chord in the United States because it's owned by a Russian Company. Name + faces (and therefore age and gender and race) + Location is the kind of data that enabled a lot of granular facebook ad targeting in 2016.
Photos that could also easily be scraped from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram etc.
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> Why is this different than the US? It's not. But it's like nuclear weapons, yeah? We are the only ones who can be trusted with them. Therein lies the rub, as they say. Yeah, well, no, stop. Facebook and social networks are regularly taking punches in the face and the US never prevented vkontact, mastodon or other clone to develop. There isn't a moratorium on social networks and public agreement to "limit the scope…
My only point is that we are not perfect. Can I point to the number of private/government partnerships that cross ethical lines? Mercenary groups (ie blackwater), Palantir, for-profit prisons, Tech companies complying with federal warrants, so-on. I will give you that it's not 1:1, and I think that's a fair counterpoint to people who don't trust the US.
That's whataboutism.