FaceApp privacy policies
Currently policies have tightened, although this does not eliminate the risk 100%. However, now it is possible to know more details of the processing because the document, updated until June 4, 2020 says that it uses Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud servers to process and store information, when they transform the image, although they only keep these data between 24 and 48 hours.
“We use third party cloud providers – Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services – to process photos. The app only uploads information to the photo cloud that the user specifically selects. The photo cache is temporarily stored on servers and encrypted using a key stored locally on the user’s computer,” says FaceApp.
The company warns in its new terms and conditions that, if the user allows and authorizes it, it can use their data to redirect personalized advertising and when entering the app through a third party, such as Facebook, the data that is already released to Facebook You can obtain and use them for advertising or statistical purposes.
“The photo is sent to the application servers where they make the modification and send it to the user. In the case of FaceApp, by using Artificial Intelligence to make the facial recognition modifications, the owner of the company could sell these photos to companies of this type, and this data can be easily used by cybercriminals to falsify our identity”, explained Fabio Assolini, senior security analyst at the cybersecurity firm Kaspersky to Expansión in July 2019 when the app recorded its first usage boom.