FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces and Names

Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by kinkrtyavimoodh on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:00AM (#20469824)

This is the reason I have just stopped bothering about privacy. I meticulously guard which apps I share my phonebook with, while other idiots share their entire contacts folder (including my details) en-masse to apps like TrueCaller.

It just feels so futile to even care.

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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by penagwin on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:03AM (#20469861)

You're right, facebook and others can (and do!) infer people based on contact lists, even if you don't have a facebook account, if all your friends do then Facebook already knows who you are, who your friends are, you're likely interests (based off friends), etc.

The best I figure I can do is to keep the apps I used locked down if possible - and to avoid "stupid" apps that clearly have little purpose other then dataharvesting.

Cool Selfy app? Ehh pass.

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