Zao, how dangerous is China's face-changing application that is causing the Internet storm?

On Friday, MoMo, a major social media company that owns Chinese dating platform Tantan, launched Zao, an app that allows users to stitch faces into videos. Immediately this software has quickly climbed to the top of the most downloaded application rankings on the iOS platform in China.

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Similar to FaceApp, users only need to upload face images, then Zao will automatically analyze and transplant your face into the body of a famous movie star like Leonardo DiCapiro, Sheldon, John Bradley . in Good movies are available in the application. The quality of the deepfake videos is very high, it will surprise you.

According to Zao's user terms, this app has the right to 'free, irrevocable, permanent, transferable' to any content uploaded to the app.

The popularity, Zao is a deepfake creation application and its user terms have made many people concerned about privacy.

Even WeChat - the famous social network, has blocked Zao on their platform.

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After receiving user feedback on privacy issues, Zao updated and changed some terms of use. Specifically, Zao insists any selfie or video added to the app will not be used for any purpose other than improving the app.

Before Zao, many of China's face-changing and deep-camera applications have become a concern for users' privacy. In early July, the FaceApp application with the function of editing the face of the user getting older or younger created a global cyber storm that had to be removed due to severe criticism of privacy and advice. to use the data.

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Micah Soto

Update 04 September 2019

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