Did you use FaceApp to age yourself and post the results on social media recently? Well, now the app owns your photo and name and can do whatever they want with it.
Kind of a bummer for us regular folk, but maybe more so for all the celebrities that have used the app like Brett Young, Thomas Rhett, Carrie Underwood and more.
At first FaceApp wasn’t notifying users, but now a notification comes up before you upload a photo. Here’s the Terms of Service almost none of us read before using it according to Forbes:
You grant FaceApp a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display your User Content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your User Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed, without compensation to you. When you post or otherwise share User Content on or through our Services, you understand that your User Content and any associated information (such as your [username], location or profile photo) will be visible to the public.
They claim they’ll just use the uploaded photos, but technically they have access to ALL the photos on your phone. ALL. OF. THEM.
