Tag: FaceApp

Everyone’s been talking about FaceApp, the new photo filter app lets users modify pictures of themselves to appear older, younger, with a different hairstyle, as a different gender, and so on, often to very creepy results. It was all fun and games until people realized that the app was owned by the Russian company Wireless Lab and that it was farming their private data. Given how Russia used people’s data to meddle in the 2016 election, soon people started freaking out. In...

Image via Instagram @LilNasX & @JonasBrothers Earlier this week, social media was overrun with the Aging Filter. On Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, internet users couldn’t escape the pictures of friends and celebrities altering their faces to look older. But a day or two ago, the conversation changed to concerns for personal and national security. After it was discovered that the app where this filter originated is owned by a Russian Company, many people started having flashbacks to the 2016 US Presidential...

FaceApp is one of the most popular apps in the world right now, but privacy advocates are raising concerns about the information that it’s collecting. The app, which was developed by the Russian company Wireless Lab, lets users modify pictures of their faces to make them seem older, younger, as another gender, or hotter. But the data stored in the app isn’t as private as some people could think. The app uses a Facebook login, giving it access to users’ pictures,...