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by Crinus 2530 days ago
What FaceApp incident?
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There wasn't really an "incident".

Someone bothered to read the terms of service and noticed that they stated that you grant the app, the app's creator, and anyone else the app's creators chose, can do what-ever they like, when-ever they like, as often as they like, for as long as they like, with your photos and any other data they scrape from you as you use the app. This cause a bit of a stir, despite being pretty much what any similar ToS says.

And apparently the app creators are based in Russia which cased further concern to some.