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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by hi5eyes on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:26AM (#20470094)
the only real difference between snap and faceapp is the media gave faceapp the russian tie in so now they're using it as that combined with federal investigation titles [1]

snap is a scarier but most people dont care since its so ingrained into their lives... for whatever reason I never understood.. but my friends used love it even while I warned them how stupid it was so use snap in the first place if you cared about privacy

what happens to snap.inc/your data when the userbase drops off completely.. inevitably like every other social media..

1. https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/17/faceapp-gets-federal-atten...

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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by marpstar on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:30AM (#20470150)
On top of that, FaceApp doesn't request Geolocation permissions while Snap integrates a map of friends in the app itself.
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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by jmkni on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:33AM (#20470206)
The app doesn't request Geolocation data, but might the geographic info still be in the EXIF data in the photo that gets uploaded?
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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by bengotow on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:48AM (#20470376)
Yep this is correct, location history can be scraped from the EXIF data in the photos in your camera roll.
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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by cronix on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:19AM (#20470712)
Does Apple allow disabling the exif feature in the camera app like Android?
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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by r00fus on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:13PM (#20473964)
https://www.igeeksblog.com/disable-geotagging-for-photos-on-...

Looks like it removes geotagging en-masse but not per-application. You can also remove EXIF from specific photos but that's tedious.

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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by hi5eyes on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:33PM (#20474121)
theres shortcuts to strip exif from photos en-masse
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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by stunt on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:29PM (#20471455)
You can disable Location Service for the Camera app in the Privacy Settings.
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