AGING FACE APP

There is an AI photo-editing app called FaceApp that lets you see what you might look like when you’re older, and it’s scarily realistic. The app is one of the most downloaded across the globe. The aging filter adds extra pounds, wrinkles, yellowed teeth and gray hair to selfies. It’ll even give you a beard. However, experts are warning that the free app, created in 2017 by developers in St. Petersburg, Russia, poses security concerns that may give them access to your personal information and identity. In their Terms and Conditions you agree that they have the right to modify, reproduce and publish any of the images you process through its AI. That means you grant FaceApp a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use, adapt, publish, and distribute your photos in all media formats. They can also use your real name, your username or “any likeness provided” without notifying, much less paying, you. They can retain that material as long as they want, even after you delete the app, and you won’t be able to stop them. So why is that a problem? In the not-too-distant future, we’ll be using our faces as passcodes to access things like our money.
(some examples here: https://nypost.com/2019/07/16/faceapp-challenge-celebrities-reveal-how-theyll-look-as-seniors/)
* Oops. Not any more.
* Like any of us are going to have any money left when we’re older. As if!
* I gave FaceApp my picture to age, and it came back with a photo of a pile of dust.
* I gave FaceApp my picture to age, and it came back. “Sorry, can’t help you.”
* I gave FaceApp my picture to age, and it just sent me a photo of Steve Buscemi.
* I had the original aging app – kids.