Old people everywhere you look. The “Facebook” with your aging function just for a Hype in the social media. But experts and politicians warn: data and photos could fall into the wrong hands.
Since 2017 on the market, now a great success: the “Facebook”
Hair gray to the tips, and wrinkles as deep as ravines and skin, the of the earth’s gravity gives way. It is a fate that catches up with us all sooner or later. Life in old age is something to hide, especially young people. But at the Moment can expect a lot of hardly, your body, the aging watch.
A program with the name “Facebook” makes people within a few seconds to decades of aging. A photo and a few clicks are enough. The social networks are full with wrinkled faces. Celebrities with make, and have triggered a global Hype, where hardly anyone comes over.
Virtual Pony and hipster beard
Star-DJ David Guetta looks suddenly as if he had a 60-year-old career behind. The boy band “Jonas Brothers” is equal to the year 3000 was added. But a self-experiment shows that Not only the celebrities in the “Facebook works” amazingly well. My future me has a terrifying Similarity to one’s own father or grandfather. Thus, the “Facebook saves” at the same time for the paternity test.
A look into the future? DW-author Patrick Great after aging in the “Facebook”
After the initial shock has settled, follows the next: The App is an example of how good images can already today manipulate unnoticed. After the program, an artificial intelligence that knows the natural processes of aging and on each face may use is plugged in.
But that’s not enough: Who spells like a few years younger, a new hairstyle to try out, or lack of growth of the beard would hide, you can do that with the “Facebook” also. First of all, users will have to make do with a virtual Pony, and a Hipster Beard. Larger changes require larger investments. Other Features, such as, for example, has a moustache, there are only in the subscription for a single payment of 44 euros or 20 euros per year.
Younger, friendly, beautiful: The “Facebook” has many functions
Millions of people seem to have Fallen to the functions of the “Facebook” is found. For the Russian developers of the “Wireless Lab” is a full success. Worldwide, the App is on the first place of the download charts in Apple and Android. But success comes late: The App is been working for about two years on the market. It seems to be pure coincidence that celebrities around the world have discovered on their own now.
Pensioners photos for Vladimir Putin?
Only after the Hype had reached to the “Facebook” the App Stores and Social Media, were the first critical voices. The company behind the App, “Wireless Lab”, sitting in St. Petersburg. The man learns in the Terms and conditions of the App. Otherwise, nothing is about the company known. A closer look into the Terms and conditions and the privacy policy a the fun of the App is likely to pass. The company collects not only data users, but also stores the images. Critics worry that the Russian state could use for its purposes. But what should start of Vladimir Putin with pictures of millions of wrinkled people?
Nothing, says the company’s CEO Jaroslaw Goncharow. It would only upload the output images to the user and edited. Actually, that would be in the App itself. Goncharow explains, however, that would improve the Performance of the App by Uploading the images to a Cloud.
The Server would not be in Russia, but, for example, in the USA, Singapore or Ireland, and Amazon or Google. In addition, most of the images would be deleted within 48 hours. Also other meta-data should not be disclosed to third parties, except to partner advertising. This is certainly nothing New, even Facebook and Google make use of known data in a large scale or give you more.
The “enemy Power”
The critics do not want to trust the statements of the company bosses, but so right. Important personal data could fall into the wrong hands, warned Germany’s top data protection officer Ulrich Kelber. The terms and conditions are too “spongy”.
A Russian company, which collects data and stores photos? In the USA, all of the alarm ringing as bells. Since Russia is supposed to have in the presidential election of 2016, mixed, warns the policy. And so could deal with soon, the FBI with the “Facebook”.
The democratic Senator Chuck Schumer has written a letter to the authority. Together with the authority for consumer protection, the FBI should investigate whether the developer of the App to enter data of US citizens to third parties. It was “deeply troubling” that “an enemy Power, the Cyber-Offense against the United States committed” could get personal data. Choice fighters in the upcoming race for the White house should delete the App immediately, urged the Democrats.
Much remains unclear
After the first wave of indignation, came forward but experts warned against exaggerated panic. A French security researcher who uses the Pseudonym Elliot Alderson, has reviewed, what data the App is in the Background unnoticed more. In fact, only the photos would be uploaded, the user selects, he told the “Guardian”. Previously there have been rumours in social networks, “Facebook” would upload all the photos that are stored on the phone.
Otherwise, the App would only pass on the model and the serial number of the smartphone – that is, data that save most of the other Apps, also, to analyse the use of. The fear of the “Facebook” was merely caused by the fact that the company responsible is sitting in Russia, says the expert from France. But whether the photos of the User in the Background to be used for other purposes, is still unclear. Just as unclear as the question, whether the App can say our appearance in the high age of almost advance.