FaceApp, an app that offers special effects for photographs, has been downloaded and installed by more than 150 million people worldwide, according to consumer tech journalist John Koetsier, writing in Forbes. Koetsier writes that the most popular of these special effects is an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced photo filter that ages any faces in the photograph. This feature has gotten even more popular lately, leading to the app's privacy being called into question on a global scale.
FaceApp is developed and published by Wireless Lab, a company with headquarters in St. Petersburg, Russia. While Wireless Lab and its staff are based in Russia, company founder Yaroslav Goncharov told Forbes that all the app's storage and cloud resources are in the US and that the data collected by the app is hosted in the US, not Russia. Because FaceApp has such close ties to Russia, American political officials have raised concerns about the overall security of the app. But the potential issues go beyond where the data is hosted.
Here are three risks to unpack before deciding to use FaceApp:
Risk 1: Terms and ConditionsAs with any social media app, the terms are the bulk of your contract and the primary mechanism that is supposed to protect you (the user). But terms are also a ..
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