Russian company behind FaceApp may have created one of the largest private troves of geometric and facial landmark data. Facial manipulation and recognition technology is progressing rapidly, and there are shortcut ways to do what FaceApp is doing. FaceApp surfaced in the news last month after it was falsely accused of raiding individuals’ photo libraries and uploading those photos to the cloud. The accusation was debunked, and FaceApp tried to provide reassurance by saying it discards most photos within 48 hours. But how FaceApp works is still very much a black box in a cloud computer.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/faceapps-real-score-mathematical-face-feature-set-p-2780