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Elizabeth Potts Weinstein
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If you use #FaceApp you are giving them a license to use your photos, your name, your username, and your likeness for any purpose including commercial purposes (like on a billboard or internet ad) -- see their Terms:
Their address per their Terms is: Wireless Lab OOO
16 Avtovskaya 401
Saint-Petersburg, 198096, Russia
Their Privacy Policy is not remotely GDPR compliant. It says that your data can be transferred to any location where they have a facility ... which means Russia.
since you’re here, if you want to stop harm from not just Russian influences but also structural racism, donate to advancementproject.org/home/ to support their work in voting rights, immigrant justice, school-to-prison pipeline, and more
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NEW: Late in 2018, #FaceApp moved to the Skolkovo Innovation Center run by the Russian government.
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Remember Cambridge Analytica? Not long ago right?
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If you are thinking of using the #FaceApp consider Section 5 of the ToS & that you grant FaceApp a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable sub-licensable licence to use your content (and which may be of your friends or colleagues)
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#FaceApp o lo que es la resaca del 10YearsChallenge
A eso llega andar regalando datos y entrenando algoritmos IA para cálculo de envejecimiento.
Hay muchas cosas que me sorprende más que a la gente le sorprenda, que la sorpresa misma que causa el tema en cuestión. Por ejemplo este rollo de la FaceApp.
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Envejecimiento es el menor de los temas que maneja esa app, esos algoritmos.

Pueden alterar rostros como se les pegue la gana.
¿Todavía queda duda de donde salen la imagenes de perfil de tanto puppet?
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