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Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access to more than 150 Million People's Faces and Names:
Everyone's seen them: friends posting pictures of themselves now, and years in the future.
Viral app FaceApp has been giving people the power to change their facial expressions, looks, and now age for several years. But at the same time, people have been giving FaceApp the power to use their pictures — and names — for any purpose it wishes, for as long as it desires.
[...] While according to FaceApp's terms of service people still own their own "user content" (read: face), the company owns a never-ending and irrevocable royalty-free license to do anything they want with it ... in front of whoever they wish:
You grant FaceApp a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display your User Content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your User Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed, without compensation to you. When you post or otherwise share User Content on or through our Services, you understand that your User Content and any associated information (such as your [username], location or profile photo) will be visible to the public.
FaceApp terms of use
[...] And it's a good reason to be wary when any app wants access and a license to your digital content and/or identity.
As former Rackspace manager Rob La Gesse mentioned today:
To make FaceApp actually work, you have to give it permissions to access your photos - ALL of them. But it also gains access to Siri and Search .... Oh, and it has access to refreshing in the background - so even when you are not using it, it is using you.
Do recall we recently had a story here about "Deep Fakes": Deep Fakes Advance to Only Needing a Single Two Dimensional Photograph.
Also at Security Week.
(Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday July 19 2019, @08:57PM
You should at least get a cut from the re-use of your own face.
It's the whole giving your birthright away for a bowl of porridge thing.
Clearly another dark pattern, exploiting vanity and the sheen of new tech to lure people into a trap.
Can their face and likeness be used in an advertisement that they are going to see over and over for the next few years everywhere they go in public?
Can it be sold to their greatest enemy for a 19.99 one month subscription to a service like cell phone records?
The sci fi dystopian possibilities here are pretty wild. This is a mania, people will get hurt, corporations will win.
Like Mr. Stallman says, it is difficult to defend people's rights when they are so hellbent on giving them away.
Reminds me also of Pinnochio. And Requiem For a Dream.