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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by daenz on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:00AM (#20470515)
>Is "what your face looks like" private information?

I think it's the linkage of the name and the face. Either of those things alone don't seem like private information, but together, I would argue they are private. I can't provide a good reason as to why I think that yet though.

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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by Whatarethese on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:09AM (#20470598)
They publicly said that less than 1% of the users created an account and tied it to a name. Granted thats still hundreds of thousands but it nothing crazy.
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