This is how you can delete your photos

The application of FacePatch, the artificial intelligence self-publishing application that has been widely deployed recently, has turned into a bigger controversy about its concerns about user privacy.

These fears have been raised by the application of Facebook as a nascent Russian company that uploads users' images to the cloud servers and processes the images there - without explaining to users that the processing is not done locally on their computers, raising doubts about the company's ability to retain or send images to Russia.

Another problem raised by application users on the OS was that the application had the ability to override the settings if the user refused to access his camera list after telling people that they could still select and upload an image, Have permission to access their photos.

Although this is actually allowed behavior in the OS OS, which gives users the ability to choose an application's access to the camera but excludes individual images to load if desired.

Therefore, this is not the ability of the application to overcome the prohibition, but it is a property in any OS.

As for the issue of cloud processing, which has sparked the most controversy, the company confirmed that most of the treatment required to operate the effects of bending bends between age-appropriate sex in practice, are in the cloud.

But claims that it only uploads the images that users specifically selected for editing. The security tests by TechCrunch did not find evidence that the application uploaded the entire camera file to the user.

The company says that the application stores the images users chose to upload in the cloud for a short time, claiming that it is to "speed up the download and traffic with the algorithm" Most images are deleted from the servers within 48 hours from the date of download.

It also claims that it does not transfer user data to Russia, although its research and development team is there, so it is possible that storage and cloud processing are carried out using infrastructure outside of Russia.

TechCrunch asked them to confirm the location of the storage and processing servers. Founder Yaroslav Goncharov said he was using the AWS and Google Clou servers.

"We do not sell or share any user data with third parties."

Users can request deletion of their data, although it does not have a smooth way to do so. Users are asked to send deletion requests via the mobile application by accessing Settings-> Support-> Reporting an error and typing the word " Privacy "in the subject line, the company confirmed that it works the best way for users to erase their data.

But the company also notes in its statement that the vast majority of users of the application do not log on, indicating that they can not link images to people's identities in most cases.

Text of company statement

This is the company's statement.

We receive a lot of inquiries about our privacy policy, so we'd like to provide some points that explain the basics:

1. Most of the image processing in the cloud is performed by FaceFap. We only download the image selected by the user for editing, and do not transfer any other images from the phone to the cloud.

2. We may store a downloaded image in the cloud. The main reason for this is performance and traffic. We want to make sure that the user does not upload the image repeatedly for each edit, and most images are deleted from our servers within 48 hours of the download.

3. We accept requests from users to remove all of their data from our servers. Our support team is currently depleted, but these requests are our priority. For faster processing, we recommend sending requests from the Mobile Visas app using Settings-> Support-> Report Error "by" Privacy "in the subject line. We're working on the best user interface for that.

4. All FAS features are available without signing in, and you can only sign in from the settings screen. As a result, 99% of users do not log in, so we can not access any data that can identify anyone.

5. We do not sell or share any user data with third parties.

6. Although the R & D team is located in Russia, the user data is not transferred to Russia.

In addition, we would like to comment on one of the most common questions: are all images uploaded from the photo album to our servers after the user has given us access to their images?

We're not doing this. We're only uploading a selected image for editing, and you can quickly check it out using any of the sniffing tools available on the Internet.