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FaceApp responds to privacy concerns — TC

FaceApp confirms that most of the processing needed to power its app’s beautifying/gender-bending/age-accerating/-defying effects are done in the cloud, writes Natasha Lomas.

Here is the link: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/17/faceapp-responds-to-privacy-concerns/

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