Imagine you'd like to build a database with not only every data you usually can get through user interaction with your service and the device where your app has been installed on, but with pictures of your user's faces, too. What a treasure trove in times of face recognition software.
But surely after all those breaches and hacks related to online services, you'd have a very hard time getting to this kind of data, right? Especially when you are based in Russia?
Wrong.
You grant FaceApp a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display your User Content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your User Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed, without compensation to you
All you'd need is a fancy app that adds some very good neural networked filters and transformations to uploaded facial pictures, and sure enough, even the tech- and privacy-savvy users can't resist to show off how they may look in some decades, no matter the terms.
Easy as that.
And yes, this is true for any 'social' network or service. Read the privacy statement or terms of Instagram, Twitter and the likes. They all need the agreement to do with the uploaded images whatever they want.
It is just that I am very careful to not have my face plastered all over the web. It is a futile attempt, since attending public events, and sometimes being on stage with my bands, involves pictures, and surely they end up on someone else's computer and in databases owned by the tech giants.
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Before you spin up your conspiracy engines, simply working with (almost any kind of) user generated content requires some legal rights. So the quoted part of is no indicator of a sinister plot at all (but there are other parts worth looking at).
Storing the data on your servers in the first place?
nonexclusive, royalty-free license to use
Doing backups?
Right to reproduce
Using a cloud/cdn?
Transferable sub-licensable license (because your provider needs to be able to store/reproduce/distribute/etc. the content as well).
Doing thumbnails? Image cropping? Art direction?
Right to modify, adapt, create derivative works from.
Offering translations of image descriptions? Doing video transcriptions?
Right to translate.
Actually showing anything on the web?
Worldwide right to distribute publicly perform and display.
Providing an iOS app? Android? Website? Planning to do a VR version?
Rights apply to all media formats and channels now known or later developed.
Hi Frederic, first of all, thank you for the comment. Getting genuine comments, posted here on my site is such a rare occurence in these days of the social network dominated web, that this little bug regarding the line-breaks never got noticed. Fixed now, so: Thanks. :)
On topic, all the points you correctly raised are the reason why I refrain from uploading mug shots on *any* platform and when I was still on FaceBook pested my "friends" to not tag me anywhere. It is a futile attempt, having attended public events and playing in a band - so my face is out there, as well. But still, I really think people should be not as careless on providing their personal data in exchange for 15 seconds of peer-driven fame.
It just didn't fit into a tweet. ?
I just wanted to point out that these legal terms apply to any kind of content you put online. I bet that even in your own webhoster contract there will be a paragraph where you allow them storing/processing the data on their server on your behalf.
Some companies tend to define a broad range of granted rights in their terms of use. They usually do so to avoid updating their terms on every minor change, requiring them to have the whole legal team going over every single word again, informing their users, asking for consent, and so on. So you always have to take these terms with a grain of salt, if it's "we just do the legalese dance to cover our asses" or "muhaha, evil world domination!!!1".
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