Democrats Issue Warnings Against Viral Russia-Based Face-Morphing App
Democrats Issue Warnings Against Viral Russia-Based Face-Morphing App Enlarge this image toggle caption FaceApp FaceApp The growing popularity of FaceApp — a photo filter app that delights smartphone users with its ability to transform the features of any face, like tacking on years of wrinkles — has prompted Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer to call for a federal investigation into the Russia-based company over what he says are potential national security and privacy risks to millions of Americans. Technology Viral Russian-Created FaceApp Sparks Worry Over Privacy Viral Russian-Created FaceApp Sparks Worry Over Privacy Listen · 4:25 4:25 In an email sent to 2020 presidential campaign staff Wednesday, Lord urged "people in the Democratic ecosystem" against using an app that could have access to its users' photos. Founder Yaroslav Goncharov told the website that FaceApp, headquartered in St. Petersburg, uses Amazon's cloud platform and Google Cloud to host the app data, where it processes "most" photos. Uploaded photos, FaceApp said, may be stored temporarily for "performance and traffic" to ensure users don't repeatedly upload the same photo as the platform completes an edit.
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