Faceapp responds to allegations of lack of privacy

FaceApp is the great protagonist of this week. The application that allows you to see how you will be in a few years causes a furore on social networks. Although this popularity has its dark side too, since it has been known that the application collects more data than it should, which undoubtedly leaves its privacy in doubt. Additionally, users hand over the rights to these photos to the Russian company behind it.

FaceApp responds to allegations of lack of privacy

In the United States, there are senators who ask to investigate the company. Faced with these accusations, the firm has stepped up and wanted to respond to those who accuse them of lack of privacy.

Company statements

FaceApp has access to the photos and there are users who have seen it upload all the photos from the phone to the server. Although the firm says that this process is carried out in the cloud and only the photos that the user has selected are uploaded. When you want to edit a photo, it is hosted on the server, something that the signature says is for performance, to avoid uploading the same photo to edit.

Also, no one knows what photos or how long they stay on their servers. Although the firm says to accept requests to be removed from it. They also claim to have no access to data that can identify a user. They wanted to emphasize that although the firm is Russian, the data is not released to the Russian government.

Despite these statements, there are still many questions around FaceApp. So there are petitions in the United States to investigate the application. It may happen, so we can see that it continues to generate controversy.

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