FaceApp: the New App Amidst the Storm of Controversies


The New Free Face Editing App, FaceApp, poses security concerns. Is it? Read on to Find Out! 

#Faceappchallenge is the new maniac among the smart-phone users that has taken over almost all the social-media platforms. The challenge revolves around installing a free face editing app named Faceapp, applying one of its features to age your face digitally & post them on social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp.

free face editing app

If you have scrolled your social-media accounts recently, you must have observed your friends/relatives uploading pictures of their older & younger self.
This new app cherished immense popularity among the Android & iOS Users last week. It transcended Apple App Store’s top charts as the most downloaded app, leaving behind Whatsapp & Facebook. The number of users of this new face app has crossed over 80 millions.
Faceapp’s CEO, Yaroslav Goncharov was overwhelmed with joy to announce the success this face filter app achieved in such a short span. Prompted with the success, Yaroslav posted on Facebook: “Change, it’s nice”.

What Is FaceApp?

Developed in 2017 by Wireless Lab, a Russia-based company, FaceApp is a funny face app that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to modify your images that you upload to the app. The app enables you to age yourself, swap gender & transform yourself in to a hit man (a bald version of yourself).
During the year of its launch, this face exchange app faced wide reproof for incorporating “racist” selfie-filters – that facilitated the users to brighten their skin tones.
Another storm of outrage was kindled against FaceApp a few months later, after it launched an array of “ethnicity filters”. The ethnicity filters allowed users to modify their images to appear “Asian”, “India” or “black”.
Though these features were introduced with good intentions, people took them to the road leading to racism.

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