I found apps sending my personal information to all sorts of tracking companies I’d never heard of. The most unsettling part was how much data FaceApp was sending to its own servers, after which … who knows what happens. Just deleting the app won’t get rid of the photos FaceApp may have in the cloud. “For the fastest processing, we recommend sending the requests from the FaceApp mobile app using ‘Settings->Support->Report a bug’ with the word ‘privacy’ in the subject line. We’re literally paying them to read the privacy policies — and vet that companies such as FaceApp are telling the truth.

Source: Washington Post July 17, 2019 20:57 UTC