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FaceApp responds to privacy concerns

FaceApp responds to privacy concerns

TechCrunch Industry News · TechCrunch

July 18, 20195m 47s

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FaceApp, the AI-powered selfie-editing app that’s been having another viral moment of late, has now responded to a privacy controversy that we covered earlier here. We’ve pasted the company’s full statement at the bottom of this post. The tl;dr here is that concerns had been raised that FaceApp, a Russian startup, uploads users’ photos to the cloud — without making it clear to them that processing is not going on locally on their device.

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