FaceApp isn't stealing your data (as far as we can tell)

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I never understood why the primary concern was privacy. I mean, it gets your information from Facebook doesn’t it?

I’d be much more worried about what they’re training their algorithm to do. Seeing your old self is fun and all, but if you helped the surveillance state or deep fake troll factories, then it would probably be preferable to just wait and see. Of course that’s just speculation on my part, maybe their software will be used for something harmless.

Potentially, this means that people wanting to go "off the grid" (or who had already done so) can be identified using old photos.

If you have any old photos of yourself anywhere on the internet, or even in your offline gallery, you will be traceable.

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