FaceApp raises concern on how personal photos are used

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

Twitter user Elisabeth Potts Weinstein detected that by signing the terms and conditions of the photo editing application, the user is giving away the right to FaceApp to use their photos, name, voice and identity for commercial purposes.

FaceApp is a free application that edits photos with filters that transform the face of the image. The software allows to make the faces look older, younger, of another sex or even add a beard in the most realistic way.

As indicated by the terms and conditions of the application, when accepting the conditions “FaceApp has a license with transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid, license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works, distribute, publicly run and display your user content and any name, user name or image provided in relation to your user content in all formats and media channels known or subsequently developed, without compensation for you.”

Another controversial aspect of the terms is that they could transfer the data from one State to another to be ruled by the data protection jurisdiction of another country, and that this collection of data is legal. In the privacy policy, they warn that “if you are in the European Union or other regions with laws governing the collection and use of data that may differ from the laws of the United States, please note that we may transfer information, including information personal, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same laws as its jurisdiction in relation to data protection.”

K. Tovar

Source: BBC