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 ALittleLight on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:22AM (#20470760)

If you wanted to escape it you could use something like This Person Does Not Exist and submit large numbers of fake people with your name to the app such that nobody would be able to tell which was the real you.

Of course, to do it well, you'd probably want to start doing it before anybody submitted your real photo, then just submit a fake picture at random intervals for perpetuity.

An alternate variation on this is flooding them with fake people and fake names to make their real database worth less.

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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:38AM (#20470933)

Surely that's not going to work. You'd create many fake people linked to your name, but your own face will still be one. You'd have to create enough "face hashes" to DDoS a recognition computer .. seems unlikely.

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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by rjzzleep on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:08PM (#20471245)

Well, maybe it should be the other way round. You should link many faces of yourself to the people that legally exist but have no social media presence but are registered and exist. You can find those kinds of people in countries like Germany

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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by lowercased on Thursday July 18, 2019 @02:32PM (#20472681)

generally, they're also going to have your connection/friend data as well. You might submit 300 "ALittleLight" name/face combos, but only one ALittleLight will be connected to a similar group of people you know who know each other to some degree.

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