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Does FaceApp violate your privacy?

July 19, 2019
GZERO Staff
Does FaceApp violate your privacy?

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Is Elon Musk's Neuralink a good idea?

It is a very smart idea to try to figure out how to use tiny robots to embed things into our brains that help us think faster. But there are gonna be some crazy implications if this works and a lot of people who get hurt, if it doesn't.

Does FaceApp violate your privacy?

Yes! FaceApp does violate your privacy but not that much more than Facebook and Instagram.

What is the most interesting thing to come out of the tech hearings?

I continue to be amazed that all of the senators and congressmen can rail against Facebook while still using privacy-violating Facebook pixels on their own home pages and that the hypocrisy doesn't seem to bother anybody.

Will China launch a digital currency even if Facebook doesn't?

I think China is going to launch a digital currency even if Facebook does. Facebook launching one will make China more eager to do it, in fact. So we'll have lots of digital currencies in the future.

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