What do companies do with your face?
Why people are worried about FaceApp for the wrong reasons.
Unless you鈥檝e been living under a rock you鈥檝e probably used Faceapp to see how you鈥檒l look when you鈥檙e older.
But in the days after Faceapp blew up, a conspiracy theory spread across the internet. People were worried that Wireless Lab - the app鈥檚 maker - was feeding data to the Russian government.
This led to the Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer calling for an investigation into FaceApp. In a letter posted on Twitter, Mr Schumer called it "deeply troubling" that personal data of US citizens could go to a "hostile foreign power".
In this episode we speak to the 大象传媒鈥檚 Russia and disinformation specialist Olga Robinson about why worrying about Faceapp鈥檚 Russian roots misses the point. Maryam Ahmed - a 大象传媒 expert in Machine intelligence 鈥� answers the questions the Faceapp story throws up and explains why any private company would want pictures of our face in the first place.
Producers: Duncan Barber and Lucy Hancock.
Mixed by Nicolas Raufast.
Editor: Philly Beaumont.
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