Schumer mentioned in his letter that users must provide FaceApp full access to their personal photos and data. FaceApp’s privacy policy also reveals that users give the app permission to use or publish content shared with the application without notifying the user, according to the letter. In a letter Wednesday to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Joseph Simons, the New York Democrat expressed his concerns with the trending FaceApp. The app uses artificial intelligence to transfer users’ faces from photos into younger or older images of the person. “If so, I would urge that steps be immediately taken by the FBI to mitigate the risk presented by the aggregation of this data.

Source: Huffington Post July 18, 2019 03:22 UTC