FaceApp: Experts have privacy concerns about popular face transformation app

OddTrader · Apr 27, 2017

Photo: ABC journalist Will Ockenden uses FaceApp to make himself appear younger, older, and female.

FaceApp: Experts have privacy concerns about popular face transformation app

By national technology reporter Jake Sturmer and Will Ockenden

Updated April 27, 2017

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-27/should-you-worry-about-privacy-when-using-faceapp/8476666

FaceApp has gone viral. Why? Because it lets you transform your face in hilarious ways.

But privacy advocates warn you could be giving up much more information than you think.

It's the number one free iPhone app in Australia and more than 20 other countries at the moment, according to Applyzer.com. More than 700,000 people are reportedly downloading it every day.

Its creators, based in Russia, say the app uses a form of artificial intelligence (AI) — known as a neural network — to scan faces and make them younger, older, a different gender, or more attractive.

FaceApp's founder Yaroslav Goncharov said recently the app used "neural networks to modify a face on any photo while keeping it photorealistic".
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mlawson71 · Apr 28, 2017

I'm just stunned how realistic the manipulated images look. You can't actually tell it's been automatically manipulated (rather than manipulated by a humam artist) at all.

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