Specifically: what could be problematic in the "printing conditions" of FaceApp's use conditions?

The popular FaceApp mobile application, responsible for the millions of faces of older people who have invaded social networks in recent days, indicates in small print that she also has the right to use users' personal information and photos that you do for commercial purposes.

Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a lawyer in Silicon Valley, found that by signing the terms and conditions of the photo editing application, the user badigned the right to FaceApp to use their photos, name, voice and identity for commercial purposes.

FaceApp is a free application that publishes photos with filters that transform the face of the image. The software can give faces a look older, younger, another bad or even add a beard in the most realistic way.

According to the terms and conditions of the application, when accepting the terms "FaceApp has a license with a transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid license , to use, reproduce, modify, publish, translate, create derivative works, distribute, publicly execute and display your user content, as well as any name, user name or image provided in connection with your user content, in any formats and on all media known or developed later, without compensation for you ".

Do not forget that facial recognition involves the collection of personal biometric data.

And there is something even more serious

Another controversial aspect of the terms is that they indicate that they could transfer data from one state to another to be governed by the data protection jurisdiction of another country and that such data collection be legal.

In the privacy policy, they advise that "if you are in the European Union or in other regions with laws governing the collection and use of data that may differ from those of the United States Please note that we may transfer information, including personal information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same laws as its data protection jurisdiction ".

To take into account before installing an application

As Potts Weinstein says in his Twitter account, if you want to use a new application, you should notice:

• Who makes the request? Look for the company and humans.
• Find an address. Do you agree with your data going there?
• Find the terms and privacy policy. What do you get licensed? What can you do with your data? How can you cancel your account?