This summer already,FaceAppfaced very serious criticism from the public regardingits more than questionable management of photo storage on iOS. If many people have expressed themselves on the subject thanks to social networks and even the CEO of the company has gone so far as to respond to them, the controversy has now reached another level.
Indeed, the main federal judicial police and domestic intelligence service of the United States has just taken a position on the question of this tool, very popular with young people on both iPhone and Android. This is theFBI, created over 100 years ago.
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The American organization got straight to the point: FaceApp presents, according to it, areal potential threat of “counterespionage”. Understand that saving millions of faces of citizens across the Atlantic exposes them to leaks of their personal data. When we know thatChina already uses facial recognition excessively, we are therefore entitled to wonder about the future of this type of information.
The FBI's response does not come out of nowhere: it follows a request made by a Democratic senator, Chuck Schumer. Given that the press release comes from Washington, the words of the CEO of the startup who assures that Russia does not interfere with the accounts of its users are therefore subject to nuance. It would even be possible that FaceApp was infiltrated by the local government without its team being aware, given the tools made available to the ex-KGBare formidable.
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