FaceApp: A great concern about user privacy, What You Need to Know
FaceApp: A great concern about user privacy, What You Need to Know
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FaceApp is in great discussion these days, the app has been so popular over the past few days that it has been downloaded 1.5 million times over 15 million times so far. People are getting a lot of credit for this app on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. People can see their 50-year-old look through this app. That's why people are sharing a picture of themselves 50 years later on social media. That's why it's becoming a trend. Celebrity or politician or common man, all have become the diva of this app. Let's know the full details

For your information, people feel that the photo is being filtered and promoted with this app. In fact, this app doesn't work on a filter. It uses an Artificial Intelligence feature that features photo alternating. This photo alternating feature produces any image by morph or alter. That creates a picture similar to the picture of your future. In addition, it has other types of filters. In the past few days, the app has created a craze and people are downloading it. The developers of this app also have access to data from users who can be misused later.

To explain to you in easy language, you are licensing this app to use personal information like photos, media, usernames, etc. on your social media platform, which is a matter of concern. Many cyber experts believe that this app can commercially use your personal photos because you have licensed the app to use your personal photos. If you read the privacy policy of this app, it clearly states that the app can use your personal information. The policy for most social media platforms clearly states that if you share content on the platform, it can be used commercially. However, this FaceApp may prove even more dangerous because it also has your device's camera app permission. This means that this app can also upload other photos to your device's library on your server. Now you have the question of whether this app is safe for us? The direct answer to this question is that this app isn't safe for you.

Like the same apps, this app isn't as safe as you use every day. If you're worried about this app, there are a lot of apps that collect your personal information this way and you don't even know. Now, you'll be questioning how to prevent FaceApp or any other app from collecting your personal information. If you've made it by mistake, go to your smartphone's settings and remove the permission. For this, you'll need to go to the smartphone's settings and select the apps. After selecting the app, you'll need to go to the app info and delete the permissions. Collecting your personal information can help you stop any app by doing so.

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