In addition to user biometrics collection and storage issues, the official also explicitly responded to possible face-to-face payment risks.
At the end of last week, Momo’s face-changing software called “ZAO” smashed the circle of friends, which also made it easy to reach the top of the App Store free entertainment list. But behind the detonation, because of its technical principles similar to “deepfakes,” it has plunged into a leak of privacy, and possible user facial features are used as a security risk.
On September 3, “ZAO” officially responded to users’ concerns for the first time: “ZAO” does not store personal facial biometric feature information; “ZAO” does not collect any personal biometric features; use “ZAO” does not There will be a payment risk; if the user deletes the information or cancels the account, “ZAO” will delete the corresponding information according to the relevant laws and regulations.
Before, a clause in the “ZAO” user agreement sparked a lot of controversy. Article 6, paragraph 1, states: “After you upload and/or post User Content, you agree or ensure that the actual Rightsee agrees to grant zao and its affiliates and zao users completely free of charge, irrevocable, and permanent worldwide. , the right to transfer and licensable, including but not limited to the modification and editing of user content in whole or in part…” and the dissemination of information on user content before and after the modification and all copyrighted works owned by the copyright owner Rights and adjacent rights. “
A legal person think, which means that in addition to freely using and modifying your portrait, the app can also arbitrarily authorize it to a third party that you want to authorize, as a message for sale, but the user cannot sue because of the consent.
In the face of these controversies, “ZAO” revised the user agreement on September 1st:Users use ZAO-generated content, ZAO will only be used to modify and generate new short videos. The above content will not be used in any other form unless the user agrees again.
For the issue of portrait rights, the previous agreement has a lot of shame to the user. Article 6, paragraph 2, clearly states: “If you replace the face in the user’s content with the face of you or someone else, you agree or ensure that the portrait owner agrees to grant ‘zao’ and its affiliates completely free of charge worldwide, Non-cancellable, permanent, transferable and licensable rights.”
The revised agreement is:UserIf you use “ZAO” to change your face, you need to make sure that the portrait owner authorizes “ZAO” to process the portrait, and still does not solve the problem of portrait rights that may exist.
In addition to user biometrics collection and storage issues, the official also explicitly responded to possible face-to-face payment risks. “ZAO” said that the brush face payment security threshold is extremely high, and the “face-changing” technology realized by only one photo can’t break through the security system of paying the face.
Left is the initial user agreement; right is modified
The following is the “ZAO” response content
ZAO: Does not store personal facial biometric feature information
Everyone who cares about “ZAO”:
Sorry, the new “ZAO” has brought a lot of doubts to everyone.
As a start-up product, we do not think about it on the core concerns of everyone. These two days, we have been reflecting and correcting.
We understand your concerns about privacy and security issues, and we value your feedback, opinions and suggestions. We will thoroughly sort out the text of the terms of the User Agreement, modify and adjust the areas that are easy to cause ambiguity, and make the following explanations on the issues that everyone cares about:
1. “ZAO” does not store personal facial biometric feature information.
In your use, in order to protect the right of portraits, “ZAO” sets up a real-life verification process. The whole process is only to verify that the photos you upload are yours. To ensure the security of your information, “ZAO “The personal facial biometric feature information will not be stored.
2. The “changing face” effect presented by “ZAO” is based on the avatar photos you submitted, and the fictional images realized by the post-technical overlay according to the material scene you selected, and no personal biometric features are collected. Fictional images can be visually approximated, but not your real information.
3. Using “ZAO” does not create a payment risk.
The face security of the face payment is extremely high, and the “face change” technology realized by only one photo can’t break through the security system of the face payment.The authoritative payment platform also emphasizes from the perspective of professional technology that “changing face” is completely impossible to threaten payment security.
4. If you delete the information or cancel the account, “ZAO” will delete the corresponding information according to the relevant laws and regulations. Currently, users see the cached information after logout, which will be fixed when the version is updated later.
We attach great importance to personal information protection and data security. We also use a variety of security measures such as encrypted storage in our products, strictly comply with the requirements of laws and regulations, and fully protect personal information and data security.
Before causing doubts and troubles for everyone, we apologize again. Thank you for your attention to our products. We will actively update and improve our services to bring you more enjoyable experiences of new technologies.
“ZAO” Operations Team
September 3, 2019
(The title map is from Visual China)