Around the League 2019 offseason II

[zombie abo]

I dloaded the app, made myself old once, then deleted the app. Whatever.

 

[AgentBrodeur]

Ageism challenge

 

[JrFischer54]

I dloaded the app, made myself old once, then deleted the app. Whatever.

congrats the russians have a ton of your information more then just the photo.

 

[JrFischer54]

Just red an article that the developing company now owns over 150 million people's faces and can use them however they want, whenever they want, basically forever.

free always has a * on it. to be honest though that information was probably stolen 5x over already. I'm sure everyone's information has been compromised at some point its just if/when they decide to use it.

 

[Blackjack]

congrats the russians have a ton of your information more then just the photo.

LMAO imagine being more worried that the dirty ruskies have your information than legitimately terrible companies like Facebook and Google.

 

[zombie abo]

congrats the russians have a ton of your information more then just the photo.

They’re my neighbors so I assumed they had that shit anyways

 

[Billdo]

Read that as well. It's kind of f***ed up.

Most apps have very similar terms and conditions but this is based out of Russia so ppl are going nuts.

I'm assuming none of ya'll have ever read Facebook's terms and conditions because they make the FaceApp seem like child's play.

Bingo

 

[My3Sons]

I tried to share my face but the app rejected it saying that faces submitted had to be human.

 

[tr83]

I wanted to post a picture of my archnemesis at work but the program said it can't age asses

 

[mtnet]

I tried to share my face but the app rejected it saying that faces submitted had to be human.

Not gonna lie, I tried it on a few pics of our dogs just to see if it would do anything

I guess that will be the next one, PetFaceApp

 

[zombie abo]

We need an app that makes us all look like walter matthau

 

[Nubmer6]

We need an app that makes us all look like walter matthau

What if I ALREADY look like Walter Matthau?

 

[OmNomNom]

Just red an article that the developing company now owns over 150 million people's faces and can use them however they want, whenever they want, basically forever.

i saw the washington post article saying that dems are warning people or something to delete the app bc a russian based company made it

tbh, that's basically nationalistic/racist propaganda, and is no different than if we caught wind of the russian/chinese government saying not to DL facebook/instagram, strictly bc it's developed by an american company.

sick of this bullshit

 

[zombie abo]

What if I ALREADY look like Walter Matthau?

I honestly didn’t think that far ahead

 

[Billdo]

i saw the washington post article saying that dems are warning people or something to delete the app bc a russian based company made it

tbh, that's basically nationalistic/racist propaganda, and is no different than if we caught wind of the russian/chinese government saying not to DL facebook/instagram, strictly bc it's developed by an american company.

sick of this bull****

Exactly, it's media drive propaganda. Almost every single thing you do as far as APPs and stuff has VERY similar terms and conditions but because this a Russian based company.

 

[JrFischer54]

Exactly, it's media drive propaganda. Almost every single thing you do as far as APPs and stuff has VERY similar terms and conditions but because this a Russian based company.

so just to be correct you are ok with them using your images and information for purposes other then what you thought you were authorizing?

 

[Darkauron]

Yes, plenty apps have similar terms and conditions, but this app also *bypasses* what it should have access on the phone. Which is the core problem of the app, and allows it to access more than what is advertised. So while yes it is shady, the fact that the company that makes it is Russian and can have extensive access to millions of peoples phones, make people more concerned. And rightly so.

 

[Billdo]

so just to be correct you are ok with them using your images and information for purposes other then what you thought you were authorizing?

Just so we are clear, I NEVER said that. I get what you're trying to do but if you're the type to specifically read every single line of fine print in a terms and conditions notice for everything than more power to you.

 

[OmNomNom]

Yes, plenty apps have similar terms and conditions, but this app also *bypasses* what it should have access on the phone. Which is the core problem of the app, and allows it to access more than what is advertised. So while yes it is shady, the fact that the company that makes it is Russian and can have extensive access to millions of peoples phones, make people more concerned. And rightly so.

who says? unless you've read it on your own and can find the actual lines/compare it to instagram/fb's terms. but generally i don't trust peoples' reporting these days. the russian thing is kinda iffy to say

anywayyyyyyy, if the russians can hack henrik's phone and throw him off his game, then more power to em

 

[Blackjack]

Yes, plenty apps have similar terms and conditions, but this app also *bypasses* what it should have access on the phone. Which is the core problem of the app, and allows it to access more than what is advertised. So while yes it is shady, the fact that the company that makes it is Russian and can have extensive access to millions of peoples phones, make people more concerned. And rightly so.

Facebook got pulled from the App store for doing the same thing. Ooh, Russia. I'd be terrified if I was in a John Le Carre novel. Yeah, Russia is pretty shitty when it comes to spying and using information and murdering journalists and shit, but your average Joe is of no interest to them.

 

[None Shall Pass]

Your neighborhood IT guy here. Ideally, you shouldn't give ANY company access to your biometric information (Fingerprints, eye and face scans, etc.). This wasn't a prominent public concern until the past couple years (So you can almost forgive the mass-phototaggers on Facebook a decade ago), but it is finally in the zeitgeist now. It's bad opsec.

You should always provide third-parties with the bare minimum amount of information necessary for the service. Don't let anyone scan your face.

(Also, Russian tech firms are no worse than Chinese, American, or Indian. Bumble is Russian and no one poo-poos that.)

 

[JrFischer54]

Just so we are clear, I NEVER said that. I get what you're trying to do but if you're the type to specifically read every single line of fine print in a terms and conditions notice for everything than more power to you.

you said it was media propaganda which to me means you don't really care or believe it to be a real threat. people seem to be hung up on the russian part of it when it would still be bigly wrong if it was even a british company doing it.

 

[Billdo]

you said it was media propaganda which to me means you don't really care or believe it to be a real threat. people seem to be hung up on the russian part of it when it would still be bigly wrong if it was even a british company doing it.

My thing isn't so much that it's a threat but that people are bringing up the country in which the business is based out of as if it's MORE of a threat BECAUSE it's Russia. Regardless of country, it's shady AF.

 

[BenedictGomez]

I think there's wiggle-room here for everyone to be at least partially correct.

True, this isnt a great thing regardless of who's doing it, but we should be geopolitically savvy enough to recognize that magnitude of threat does statistically vary by originating nation. That should be pretty obvious, so not sure what kind of PC Scooby-snack points some think they're banking by pretending that isn't the case.

If I threw a dart at a corporate dartboard & accidentally leaked some data, I'd far rather it randomly touch a Swedish or an English firm than a Chinese or a Russian company. That belief isnt based upon "bias", it's based on an understanding of where a hefty chunk of the fin-crime version of the Wild, Wild, West currently resides.

 

[Patrik26]

Facebook sucks. Twitter sucks. Instagram sucks. Amazon sucks. Google collects all of it. Keep feeding the beast. Fools.