Even large, mainstream apps routinely collect user data. But many trendy-at-the-moment apps are guilty of mining user data as a primary purpose. FaceApp does not explicitly tell users that the photos are being sent to the cloud. Wireless Lab told technology news site TechCrunch that it may store users’ photos in the cloud, but “most” are deleted after 48 hours. It said no user data are transferred to Russia.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 18, 2019 04:30 UTC