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FaceApp and its intrinsic terms and conditions: Time is still a constraint for the answers which only the future can be able to provide us. But, thanks to our technological advancements, we are now capable to figure out a few things through some recently developed branches of computer science and one of them is known as Artificial Intelligence (AI).

So, in a recent viral trend, if you want to know how you will look like in your aged picture, then FaceApp’s AI is there to give you an answer.

What is FaceApp?
FaceApp, developed by a Russian company called Wireless Lab, allows its user through its fine-tuned AI engine to create their future picture.

Launched in 2017, the app is the brainchild of a former Microsoft and Yandex engineer Yaroslav Goncharov.

How can it show your aged picture?
Using deep generative convolutional neural networks, the FaceApp’s algorithm takes the picture of your face as input and adjusts it on the basis of other imagery. Its neural engine can add the features like hair colours, beards, and swap genders among other transformations of your picture.

Did you read its policies?
According to FaceApp’s privacy policy, FaceApp may share User Content and your information (including but not limited to, information from cookies, log files, device identifiers, location data, and usage data) with businesses that are legally part of the same group of companies that FaceApp is part of, or that become part of that group (Affiliates).

Though, the company claims these 'Affiliates' will honour the choices you make about who can see your photos.


Privacy policy
FaceApp also says when you use their service, FaceApp servers automatically record certain log file information, including:


  • Your web request
  • Internet Protocol (IP) address
  • Browser type
  • Referring/exit pages and URLs
  • Number of clicks
  • How you interact with links on the service
  • Domain names
  • Landing pages
  • Pages viewed, and other such information.
In fact, FaceApp may also collect similar information from emails sent to their users which then help the company track which emails are opened and which links are clicked by the recipients. The Russian company says the information allows for more accurate reporting and improvement of the service in its privacy policy.


Reference : https://www.indiatoday.in/information/story/things-you-need-know-faceapp-1571249-2019-07-19

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