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Not true. What happens to your pictures on Facebook and Google and the rest of the AI apps?

Is FaceApp an evil plot by 'the Russians' to steal your data? Not quite
Arwa Mahdawi


Following the panic over this viral app, the moral of the story is: don’t worry too much about ‘the Russians’. You should worry about everything
Thu 18 Jul 2019 07.00 BST


O ver the last few days the #faceappchallenge has taken over social media. This “challenge” involves downloading a selfie-editing tool called FaceApp and using one of its filters to digitally age your face. You then post the photo of your wizened old self on the internet and everyone laughs uproariously. You get a small surge of dopamine from gathering a few online likes before existential ennui sets in once again. Challenge completed.
On Monday, as the #faceappchallenge went viral, Joshua Nozzi, a software developer, warned people to “BE CAREFUL WITH FACEAPP….it immediately uploads your photos without asking, whether you chose one or not”. Some media outlets picked this claim up and privacy concerns about the app began to mount.


Concern escalated further when people started to point out that FaceApp is Russian. “The app that you’re willingly giving all your facial data to says the company’s location is in Saint-Petersburg, Russia,” tweeted the New York Times’s Charlie Warzel. And we all know what those Russians are like, don’t we? They want to harvest your data for nefarious purposes. Unlike American techies, of course. Who are always deeply respectful when it comes to personal data, and only use your private information to make the world a better, more connected, place.
By Wednesday things had calmed down a little bit. A French security researcher who uses the pseudonym Elliot Alderson ran a check on the app and found it was not actually uploading your entire camera roll – just the photo you were modifying. Which is what you’d expect from an app like that. Speaking to me over the phone, Alderson said he also couldn’t find any evidence it was stealing all your data; it was just getting your device ID and your device model. Which, again, is pretty much to be expected. The reason the app was causing such a fuss, Alderson hypothesized, was because of fears about Russia.


FaceApp also responded to the controversy,
telling 9to5Mac on Wednesday that it “might store” some uploaded photos in the cloud for “performance and traffic” reasons. It also said that while the app’s “core R& team is located in Russia, the user data is not transferred to Russia”.


As more information about FaceApp came out, Nozzi, the developer who helped raise the alarm about the tool, issued a lengthy mea culpa and deleted his original tweets. Wurzel also deleted his tweets about FaceApp, stating that his comments about it being Russian were being misinterpreted. “My frame of reference for them came from reporting i’m doing on diff apps accessing data/ sending it places we wouldn’t assume (3rd parties, not govts),” he tweeted .
So does this mean everything is fine? Should we feel free to partake in the #faceappchallenge without worrying about our photos being misused? Well, no, not exactly. According to FaceApp’s terms of service, when you use the app you grant it a “perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide” license to do whatever it wants with your photos. However, while this may be awful, it’s worth pointing out that it’s the same as the privacy policy of basically every other tech service and platform.
If you refused to partake in the #faceappchallenge because you were worried about your privacy, good for you. However, I wouldn’t feel too smug yet. Chances are your face is already in a database somewhere, helping to train artificial intelligence (AI) to take over the world. As Adam Harvey, a privacy expert, pointed out to me over email: “ Google researchers disclosed that they used at least 8 million user images to train face recognition. And Facebook researchers mentioned using at least 10 million users.”


In May Google researchers also disclosed that they had used 2,000 YouTube videos of people doing the mannequin challenge (the viral challenge where you stay still) to help train an AI model on predicting the depth of a moving object in a video. The researchers also released their data set for future research, meaning there’s no saying how that data will be used in the future. That video you made as a joke might be helping to train anything from a self-driving car to a killer drone.


You don’t even have to upload anything to the internet yourself for your photo to end up training AI technology. Earlier this year it was reported that the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs had secretly been photographing students for a facial recognition study. Images of more than 1,700 people were collected between 2012-2013 without their knowledge or consent. Those photos went into a dataset used for training facial recognition algorithms. The funding for this dataset came from US intelligence and military agencies.
The moral of this story, then, is that you

shouldn’t worry too much about a Russian app. You should worry about everything. We are only just beginning to understand the extent to which we live in a surveillance hell. We are only just beginning to realize that our faces no longer belong to us, they’ve been privatized.

dominique:
Just one tire on the road and he went with all that crowd and camera. Is that how a road is supposed to be be sealed?

Emyres:
The Governor took these decisions while on an inspection visit to the death trap flyover built by Rochas Okorocha and commissioned a month ago by the Vice President, Yemi Osibanjo.

dominique:
Just one tire on the road and he went with all that crowd and camera. Is that how a road is supposed to be be sealed?

You didn't see that aspect I guess. He was on an inspection visit.

Ihedioha Seals Off Orji Flyover, Orders For Immediate Test on All Projects Done By The Past Administration.

By Peter Dibia

Imo State governor, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha has asked the ministry of works to close down the Flyover at Orji and other life threatening projects executed by the Okorocha led administration.

In addition, Governor Ihedioha asked The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, COREN, Imo Chapter, to partner with the ministry to conduct integrity test on all projects of note done by the past administration.

The Governor took these decisions while on an inspection visit to the death trap flyover built by Rochas Okorocha and commissioned a month ago by the Vice President, Yemi Osibanjo.


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Mynd44

gesundheit:
Crap!!!

I am sorry for your heart attack bro. You can come back to Nigeria and help make it great for once.

gesundheit:
So much crowd, yet his own polling data shows he's under water. He's not extending outside his base. He's doing extremely poorly among women, sub urban women and gat disapproval in the high 60's among women. He's doing only 4-5% among African Americans.

The Supreme court is also undoing all the GOP racial gerrymandering in midwest states. He will be beaten like a purple baby in 2020.

You are watching too much of CNN lately.

Please take a break from it to avoid a heart attack

The truth is, as it stands now, there is no Democrat that can defeat Trump.
Sanders cannot (he is a socialist) Joe Biden cannot (he is part of the establishment) The other guy that came out the other day cannot.
Take it from me: It is TRUMP_PENCE_2020

Early this morning(Nigerian Time), the 45th US President, Donald Trump declared his bid to run for the US presidency for a second term.

He captioned his campaign to be "KEEP AMERICA GREAT"

If you watched the campaign, the crowd was too much, but the most amazing thing was the strength of Donald Trump. At 73, he is still agile and bouncing.

He had no MC because he was the MC himself.

He could remember and call people by their names.
.

It was a great moment.




please do the needful.

Good morning people.

Popular picture sharing platform is reportedly down across the globe.


Instagram has stopped working, leaving people unable to load posts or stories.
The outage comes amid another major outage at PlayStation Network , meaning that two of the biggest online services in the world have been hit by problems at the same time.
Instead of loading up posts as normal, the app showed an error page reading "couldn't refresh feed" and would do nothing else.

Attempting to load Instagram profiles on the web also brought up a Facebook-branded error message. "Sorry, something went wrong," it read, "we're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can."

There doesn't seem to be any way to fix or get around the problem, such as shutting the app or trying from a different account. The wide scale of the outage suggests the issue is with Instagram's servers or the underlying infrastructure that allows users to access them, meaning it will require an equally large scale solution.


https://www.cnet.com/news/instagram-is-down/


Mynd44 Lalasticlala

Happy birthday my father my father.
God bless you more and more.
You will remain strong, health and agile, spiritually and physically.
The gates of hell will not prevail against the church.
Happy fruitful years ahead.

The busiest section on Nairaland as it stands now is the Politics sections.
The traffic there is too much.
Thousands of guests and members viewing to know who is winning or losing.

If you have not been there, you are doing yourself.

PDP wins the Governorship election in Abia state.

As it stands now, some people will be singing the following songs.





1. Only you can do, what no man can do

2. I have confidence in you

3. God can do it again


4. God can do, anything, anytime, anywhere.

5. There is nothing the Lord cannot do.



6. What God has done for me, I cannot tell it all.

7. My God is able


Add your own my people.

Umuahia North LGA
APC - 16, 833
APGA - 2878
PDP - 15, 627

Aba North LGA
APC - 4209
APGA - 6216
PDP - 8429

Aba South LGA
APC - 5418
APGA - 6802
PDP - 5256

APC protests against the result in front of INEC office in Umuahia.

Out of the 13 LGAs results released so far, PDP is winning 11 with a wide margin, with 4 LGAs left.

Isikwuato LGA
APC - 14, 146
APGA - 1696
PDP - 3364

Ohafia LGA
APC - 6718
APGA - 6883
PDP - 19, 346

Ikwuano LGA
APC - 5619
APGA - 1588
PDP - 6285

Obingwa LGA
APC - 3390
APGA - 2679
PDP - 78, 803

Isialangwa North LGA

APC - 2404
APGA - 2084
PDP - 19, 209

Isialangwa South LGA

APC - 1569
APGA - 5129
PDP - 19, 672

Meanwhile, APC and APGA party agents have staged a walkout in the Collation center. They said that the results coming from Obingwa and Ukwa East and West and many of the LGAs are wrong and that the exercise in those places were full of irregularities.

Osisioma LGA
APC - 1981
APGA - 2298
PDP - 19, 835

Ugwunnagbo LGA
APC - 1865
APGA - 1054
PDP - 22, 084

Let's continue.

Let me take a break, I will be back soon.
But at the moment, PDP seems to be leading with a wide margin.

Umunneochi LGA
APC - 7238
APGA - 3190
PDP - 7004

Ukwa West LGA

APC - 3140
APGA - 2270
PDP - 11, 602

Ukwa East LGA

APC - 1447
APGA - 1935
PDP - 3819

Umuahia South LGA

APC - 7606
APGA - 4502
PDP - 8257