In an op-ed for The Atlantic, Yale Law School Information Society Project Fellow Tiffany Li writes that the resurrection of FaceApp is raising privacy concerns and testing privacy legislation; however, the issues "aren't unique" and go beyond the one app. "FaceApp is not the only app with weak privacy protections. It’s not even the only photo-editing app with weak privacy protections," Li writes, alluding to Snapchat, Instagram and China’s Meitu as other examples. Li goes on to discuss how tech companies "need to do better to protect the privacy of their consumers" and that "we need better privacy laws that address the new harms and risks arising from facial recognition, [artificial intelligence] and machine learning, and other technological advances."
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