The FaceApp challenge is fun — if handing your data to a Russian company is a good time. But the privacy risks the app poses are actually quite common.
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01:49Technology companies need to be more transparent, not less with this stuff, right?
01:53And so I think consumers are aware.
01:55They want to use things like this, but they want to have trust that the developers are doing the right things.
01:59And so I think a little bit more transparency out of these companies can help.
02:03Why does a face app have to collect that data?
02:05I think we need to go back to purpose-built apps that collect only the things that are needed,
02:09and users need a bit more control on their devices to decide where that data goes.