[Fri Jul 19 13:41:49 CDT 2019]

Ah, the times we live in! By now, it's quite difficult (if not impossible!) to trust anyone any longer, especially companies. We recently learned that FaceApp, the latest viral app, is also a massive privacy breach:

Looking under the hood of FaceApp with the tools from my iPhone test, I found it sharing information about my phone with Facebook and Google AdMob, which probably help it place ads and check the performance of its ads. The most unsettling part was how much data FaceApp was sending to its own servers, after which...who knows what happens. It’s not just your own face that FaceApp might gobble up — if you age friends or family members, their face gets uploaded, too.

It's difficult to tell if any of this actually represents a step forward in our lives, especially from a privacy and security perspective. After all, it clearly looks as if we are allowing access to our own private lives in exchange for the privilege of... well, the privilege of joining the "in-crowd" because most of these apps are not even useful. They are just the latest fad. {link to this entry}