<story><title>FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People&apos;s Faces and Names</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/07/17/viral-app-faceapp-now-owns-access-to-more-than-150-million-peoples-faces-and-names/#25ca052b62f1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imgabe</author><text>Is &amp;quot;what your face looks like&amp;quot; private information? You publicly display your face everywhere you go all the time. It&amp;#x27;s not really practical to hide it. Likewise your name you pretty much freely give out to anyone who asks. Is that private information?&lt;p&gt;So Faceapp knows &amp;quot;There&amp;#x27;s a person with this name who looks like this&amp;quot;. Was that supposed to be a secret?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m concerned about privacy too, but it seems like some people just want to hide under a rock for their entire lives. I don&amp;#x27;t know how anyone manages to leave the house if having people see your face and know your name is a serious concern.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bagacrap</author><text>Faceapp knows what 150M faces look like. That concentration of information is valuable. Google built a fortune by taking freely available information and organizing it for easy access. In the case of faceapp there are many nefarious actors who could serve as clients.</text></comment>
<story><title>FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People&apos;s Faces and Names</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/07/17/viral-app-faceapp-now-owns-access-to-more-than-150-million-peoples-faces-and-names/#25ca052b62f1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imgabe</author><text>Is &amp;quot;what your face looks like&amp;quot; private information? You publicly display your face everywhere you go all the time. It&amp;#x27;s not really practical to hide it. Likewise your name you pretty much freely give out to anyone who asks. Is that private information?&lt;p&gt;So Faceapp knows &amp;quot;There&amp;#x27;s a person with this name who looks like this&amp;quot;. Was that supposed to be a secret?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m concerned about privacy too, but it seems like some people just want to hide under a rock for their entire lives. I don&amp;#x27;t know how anyone manages to leave the house if having people see your face and know your name is a serious concern.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thunderbong</author><text>I think you&amp;#x27;ve put that very well.&lt;p&gt;All I&amp;#x27;m wondering is how  this would play out in a dystopian future where I&amp;#x27;m recognised by everyone wherever I go.&lt;p&gt;And in some cases they might even have additional information maybe in a probabilistic fashion. Like what kind of clothes I prefer or the kinds of food I like. And that would be the good version.&lt;p&gt;The worse scenario  would be that some malicious actor puts all this together to play on others&amp;#x27; fears.&lt;p&gt;The worst case, of course, being big brother!</text></comment>