CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Your social media feeds may be flooded with images of your friends and family looking decades older.
Faceapp uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition software to make you older, younger, and, even change your gender. It is a fun way to pass the time, but what this Russian based company does with your data is a big question.
“You see everybody else doing it. It's all over the place you want to join in on the fun,” Faceapp user D’sean Moore said.
The fun was contagious. Even celebrities got in on it.
Check out an aged Carrie Underwood.
Or, a more distinguished Jonas Brothers?
And what about those Panthers?
Even Spectrum News' Justin Quesinberry and Ariella Scalese joined in on the fun.
“It seems like a fun thing to do. This whole facial aging app, but you just got to understand the consequences,” cybersecurity expert Mike Holland at Fortalice Solutions said.
Faceapp requires users to give them access to their pictures and data for the foreseeable future.
“I think this can serve as a bit of a wakeup call that regardless of where the company may or may not be based, be really careful about how you're sharing data,” Holland said.
“I don't know what they are going to do with my old man face. I probably look good as an old man and I did, but I didn't really have too much of a problem with it,” one user told Spectrum News.
“Anyone who sent these pictures have lost control of the images itself,” Holland said.
He says your information could end up in databases---which isn't always bad----but it's not always good either.
“I just played around with it just a couple of photos. Photos of my friends and stuff. I kind of feel bad because I'm putting their stuff out there too. Kind of scared, I'm not going to lie. Probably won't have it on my phone for much longer,” Moore said.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling on the FBI and Federal Trade Commission to investigate the national privacy and security risks now that millions of Americans have used Faceapp.
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