When a user of the app selects a photograph to alter, that image — and only that image — is uploaded to FaceApp servers for processing, it said. “The main reason for that is performance and traffic: We want to make sure that the user doesn’t upload the photo repeatedly for every edit operation. and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the app, citing “serious concerns” about security, data retention and transparency. But Ivan Rodriguez, a software engineer at Google who in his free time investigates suspicious iOS apps, including FaceApp, said he found little cause for concern. Like Mr. Robert, he found that the app collected little identifiable data beyond the photos users chose to alter.

Source: New York Times July 17, 2019 22:54 UTC