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Warsaw: Poland said on Thursday it was looking into the potential security risks of using a Russian-made face-editing app that has triggered a viral social media trend where users post ‘aged selfies’.
The EU country’s digital affairs ministry said it was “analysing” the security risks posed by FaceApp to the personal data of its users, despite assurances by its designers that the app is safe.
“For several days in Poland and the world over, social media have been flooded by a wave of modified photos of ‘ageing’ users,” Poland’s digital affairs ministry noted. “Various experts point to possible risks related to inadequate protection of users’ privacy,” it said in a statement on its website.
The Russian-made app has also triggered concern in the US, where Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sounded the alarm on Wednesday, calling for the FBI and the Federal Trade Commission to “look into the national security & privacy risks” connected to the application.
Currently the top trending free app on Google Play with more than 100 million downloads, the ageing filter sparked a flood of celebrity selfies. (AFP)
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