FaceApp responds to the controversy over privacy and the use of photos

Given the doubts about its functioning, which has multiplied in social networks at the same speed as the viralized images after the processing of its artificial intelligence, the Russian company that created the application, Wireless laboratory, has issued a statement to ensure you a peace of mind and ensures that it performs most of the photographic treatments selected by the user. "In the cloud".

"We never transfer other images from the phone to the cloud – we want to make sure that the user does not have to repeatedly download the photo for each editing operation." Most of our images are removed from our servers 48 hours after the download date. ", they reported.

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"In addition, we want to comment on one of the biggest concerns: that all gallery photos are uploaded to our servers after the user gives them access, but we do not do that. only the photo selected for editing.You can check this with any network tracking tool available on the network. ", they sentenced.

It should be noted that the application includes a series of controversial terms, such as the fact that they reserve the right to use your personal information with their companies with a few exceptions.

By accepting its terms of use, the user grants it to FaceApp the image perpetually and with the license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works, distribute, execute publicly and show the results obtained.

The statement left the security experts with little taste.