![]() Russians make all sorts of things that are, as far as I can tell, just run-of-the-mill consumer products and services. Now, I don’t spend a lot of time defending the nation of my birth, as it was a crummy place to grow up (to put it mildly) and from everything I know, it continues to be a crummy place to live.īut it’s one thing to hold Vladimir Putin’s regime, in general, and the FSB, in particular, to account for an astonishing amount of both national and international malfeasance and quite another to just blanket all Russian enterprise as having some nefarious ends. They instead seemed to take for granted that this was an alarming bit of data in and of itself “Something BAD is happening… information is being gathered… and that information is being sent… TO RUSSIA! OOGA BOOGA!!!”. However, none of the hair-raising assessments were punctuated with any elucidation on why it should matter that the maker of this product is based in Russia. This fact was presented over and over again as something that should be implicitly disturbing to the reader. What seemingly ratcheted up the danger of FaceApp, however, was that that Wireless Lab, the company that produced it, was based in St.Petersburg, Russia. Would you really not install Windows or Chrome if you found something in the EULA that you disagreed with? It’s not a negotiation If you want to use the products (and you have to use the products) you must click “I agree.” So why bother becoming familiar with the terms? John Oliver brilliantly observed that we can put Mein Kampf in the EULA and people will click “AGREE” because so few bother even skimming them, much less reading the whole thing. Privacy advocates noted the app had a sweeping and deceptive user agreement (also known as a EULA), giving the company the right to upload and use the imagery pretty much however it wanted. Not long after users flooded Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter with selfies and portraits of their elderly selves, using FaceApp, the backlash kicked in. ![]()
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