<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>jklinger410</author><text>&amp;gt;except that FaceApp is a Russian company?&lt;p&gt;Well, I mean, nothing. Except that FaceApp is a Russian company.&lt;p&gt;What was different about Huawei? Except that it was a Chinese company.&lt;p&gt;And here&amp;#x27;s the thing, I don&amp;#x27;t even necessarily disagree with the worry around these foreign companies. They are outside of our jurisdiction and these countries have been known to use companies on the behalf of their governments to perform intelligence&amp;#x2F;psy-op activities.&lt;p&gt;Why is this different than the US? It&amp;#x27;s not. But it&amp;#x27;s like nuclear weapons, yeah? We are the only ones who can be trusted with them. Therein lies the rub, as they say.&lt;p&gt;Either you buy into post WWI America runs the world and our military prevented an apocalypse and got every American a car and garage by rigging the world markets and protecting the world with our Navy and every country has to go through us to technologically advance, or you are un-American? Tongue and cheek here, but this is seriously the proposition.&lt;p&gt;This is the exact decision that was made and accelerated by our military during wartime. This is our playbook.</text></item><item><author>stunt</author><text>The coverage on FaceApp and the way they talk about it is ridiculous. When it comes for instance to Snapchat&amp;#x27;s numbers, the coverage is about the success of the company.&lt;p&gt;How is FaceApp different than all other apps and social networks that are storing all your photos with location and tags to your friends except that FaceApp is a Russian company?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not defending FaceApp. I don&amp;#x27;t use social networks either for the same reasons. But this double standards in media is ridiculous in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thanatos_dem</author><text>&amp;gt; What was different about Huawei? Except that it was a Chinese company.&lt;p&gt;Well that and they blatantly steal from other companies, disregard copyrights and patents, and have the backing of the Chinese government protecting them from any real repercussions.&lt;p&gt;They don’t even try to hide it with their product naming.  Take the “MateBook X Pro” for example - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;consumer.huawei.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;laptops&amp;#x2F;matebook-x-pro&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;consumer.huawei.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;laptops&amp;#x2F;matebook-x-pro&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</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>jklinger410</author><text>&amp;gt;except that FaceApp is a Russian company?&lt;p&gt;Well, I mean, nothing. Except that FaceApp is a Russian company.&lt;p&gt;What was different about Huawei? Except that it was a Chinese company.&lt;p&gt;And here&amp;#x27;s the thing, I don&amp;#x27;t even necessarily disagree with the worry around these foreign companies. They are outside of our jurisdiction and these countries have been known to use companies on the behalf of their governments to perform intelligence&amp;#x2F;psy-op activities.&lt;p&gt;Why is this different than the US? It&amp;#x27;s not. But it&amp;#x27;s like nuclear weapons, yeah? We are the only ones who can be trusted with them. Therein lies the rub, as they say.&lt;p&gt;Either you buy into post WWI America runs the world and our military prevented an apocalypse and got every American a car and garage by rigging the world markets and protecting the world with our Navy and every country has to go through us to technologically advance, or you are un-American? Tongue and cheek here, but this is seriously the proposition.&lt;p&gt;This is the exact decision that was made and accelerated by our military during wartime. This is our playbook.</text></item><item><author>stunt</author><text>The coverage on FaceApp and the way they talk about it is ridiculous. When it comes for instance to Snapchat&amp;#x27;s numbers, the coverage is about the success of the company.&lt;p&gt;How is FaceApp different than all other apps and social networks that are storing all your photos with location and tags to your friends except that FaceApp is a Russian company?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not defending FaceApp. I don&amp;#x27;t use social networks either for the same reasons. But this double standards in media is ridiculous in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnchristopher</author><text>&amp;gt; Why is this different than the US? It&amp;#x27;s not. But it&amp;#x27;s like nuclear weapons, yeah? We are the only ones who can be trusted with them. Therein lies the rub, as they say.&lt;p&gt;Yeah, well, no, stop. Facebook and social networks are regularly taking punches in the face and the US never prevented vkontact, mastodon or other clone to develop. There isn&amp;#x27;t a moratorium on social networks and public agreement to &amp;quot;limit the scope of our arsenal&amp;quot;.</text></comment>