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FaceApp, delikado!


Ibinabala ng ilang cyber security experts ang panganib na mabalewala ang privacy ng mga indibidwal na gumamit ng photo-editing application na FaceApp.

Muli na namang naging maingay kamakailan ang FaceApp sa social media platform na Facebook dahil sa kinagigiliwan na gender transformation feature nito.

Sa paggamit ng app ay pupuwedeng gumamit ng filter na magpapakita kung ano ang hitsura ng user sa ibang kasarian.

Noong nakaraang taon ay naging kontrobersiyal din ang FaceApp matapos na mauso ang feature nito na nagpapatanda ng 40-taon ng larawan ng mga gumagamit.

Ayon sa Cybersecurity Philippines-CERT, dapat mag-ingat ang mga parukyano ng social media sa paggamit ng applications na nangangailangan na makuha ang kanilang larawan o ang access sa photo gallery ng mobile phone o gadget nito.

Karaniwan umano ngayon na ang facial biometric features ay nagagamit na password sa IOS devices.

"The app may also be used for data mining by cyber criminals or those with malicious intent against the indibiduals, and weaponize it for the use of deep fake, face swap or other media editing apps for identity theft and fraud, demolition, extortion, defamation attacks," ayon sa grupo.

Ang FaceApp ay ginawa ng Wireless Lab, isang kumpanya na nakabase sa St. Petersburg, Russia.

Pero ayon sa FaceApp, ang mga larawan na na-upload lang sa kanilang system ang nagagamit para sa editing at mananatili sa third party sa loob ng 24 hanggang 48 oras.

"We do not use the photographs you provide when you use the app for any reason other than to provide you with portrait editing functionality," ayon sa FaceApp privacy use statement.

"We make personal information into anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you," dagdag pa nito.

Ngunit nasasaad din sa privacy use statement ng FaceApp na pupuwede nitong kolektahin ang mga impormasyon tulad ng pangalan, listahan ng mga kaibigan, online activity ng user para sa marketing at advertising.

Una na ring nagbabala ang Philippine National Police (PNP) na mag-iingat sa pagtangkiilik ng mga social media application na maaaring maglagay sa alanganin ng kanilang mga personal na impormasyon.

"The choice to download and upload is to the users, but the consequence is far-reaching. Data collected for one purpose can always be used for another. Some of the worst misuses of face data come from one bad actor seizing on thousands of people who, as far as they knew, agreed to take on the responsibility themselves," pahayag ng PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group.

"Once something is uploaded to the cloud, the sender lost control of it. And with so many breaches, cyber criminals can get information and be able to create a database of people all over the world with information without the consent of the targeted people by the culprit," dagdag pa ng PNP.

Naniniwala pa ang PNP-ACGC na delikadong magamit sa iba't ibang uri ng krimen ang mga impormasyon na makukuha sa social media user.

"If the FaceApp data falls into the wrong hands, it can be used to sketch an extensive profile of the user’s online behavior. The collected photos and the identification code of the phone can be linked to data from, for example, data leaks, to identify the user’s interests. Even leaked e-mail addresses, credit cards and passwords can be linked to this profile. Such data can be misused for identity theft or espionage," ayon pa sa PNP-ACG.

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