A warning has been issued to over a new popular picture editing app that is said to be allegedly 'sending people's data to Russia '. The latest trend sees users updating their profile picture to a hand-drawn image of themselves that the app, called New Profile Pic, has edited for them for free by an AI.
The app uses facial recognition technology to find key features on an image of your face uploaded to the servers and then creates an edited version with your likeness that can be shared online. However, many of the hundreds of thousands of Facebook users who have already used the app are unaware that by doing this their information is being sent to a company registered in Moscow, Wales Online reports.
MailOnline says the company behind the app, Linerock Investments, is based next to Russia's Ministry of Defence, three miles outside Red Square. According to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Offshore Leaks database, Linerock is registered in Moscow and has a Russian director.
