它让你变老了,你的隐私还安全吗?_BEC初级作文

它让你变老了,你的隐私还安全吗?

FaceApp Lets You 'Age' a Photo by Decades. Does It Also Violate Your Privacy?

它让你“变老”了，你的隐私还安全吗？

A developer could not have asked for better publicity.

开发商期待的最好宣传莫过于此。

This week, two years after being widely panned for a filter that critics described as little more than "digital blackface," FaceApp, a photo-altering smartphone app, found itself at the center of a popular social media challenge.

两年前，一款名为FaceApp的修图移动应用曾因其中一个滤镜广受批评，批评者称其不过是“数字版白人黑脸秀”，而在这一周里，这款应用却成了一项广受欢迎的社交媒体挑战的焦点。

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A range of celebrities had been using the app's age filter to modify photographs of themselves and provide realistic glimpses of what they could look like decades in the future. But then the backlash started.

很多名人都使用这款应用的年龄滤镜来修改自己的照片，逼真展现出几十年后的自己。但随后，反弹开始了。

The app, which was created by Wireless Lab of St. Petersburg, Russia, and was ranking among the top free offerings in both the Apple and Android app stores on Wednesday, was uploading much more data than users realized, one Twitter user contended in a widely shared, since deleted post. "Russians now own all your old photos," The New York Post proclaimed in a headline.