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Privacy Tip #218 – FBI Considers FaceApp a Counterintelligence Threat

By Linn Foster Freedman on December 5, 2019
Posted in Privacy Tips

For those of you who have downloaded the face editing app FaceApp, please note that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has classified FaceApp as a counterintelligence threat because of its Russian origins.

According to the FBI, “[T]he FBI considers any mobile application or similar product developed in Russia, such as FaceApp, to be a…

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