There are a lot of applications for a night of popularity, but from night to night, from the screen to the blame, only the face application ZAO. In a voice of doubt, ZAO has quietly changed the content of the user agreement and revised the terms of use that had previously caused controversy.
After Article 6 of the original User Agreement, the User agrees to authorize or ensure that the actual right holder agrees that ZAO and its affiliates and ZAO users are “free, irrevocable, permanent, worldwide, worldwide. “Transferable and licensable rights”, “including but not limited to the modification or editing of user content in whole or in part (such as replacing a face or voice in a short video with another person’s face or voice, etc.) ) and the dissemination of information on the user content before and after the revision and all copyright property rights and adjacent rights enjoyed by the copyright owner as stipulated in the Copyright Law.
This clause is alleged to be excessively authorized by the user, and requires the user to obtain the suspicion that the face-lifting object is authorized to pass the responsibility. In the event of infringement in the future, ZAO may completely swear according to this clause.
▲ Modified User Agreement
In the latest version of the User Agreement, this clause was changed to:
When you upload and/or post User Content, you agree or warrant that the actual rights holder has agreed to grant “ZAO” and “ZAO” users a free worldwide, partial modification of the User Content or Edit (such as replacing the face in the short video withThe face of another person, etc.) and the right to disseminate information about the user content before or after editing or editing.
The words “irrevocable”, “permanent authorization”, “information network transmission of user content before and after modification” have been deleted, and the authorization obtained by ZAO is also included by “including but not limited to all or part of the user content.” “Modify and Edit” is changed to “Can modify or edit the user content in part”, and a special hint is made in bold font at the beginning of the agreement, which promises that the protocol is only used to modify the content of the user’s uploaded content. It will not be used for other purposes.
However, the new user agreement still retains the requirement to “ensure the actual rights holders agree”, but some lawyers have pointed out that in the actual infringement investigation, it is difficult for the platform to exempt the liability according to this clause.
ZAO’s official Weibo responded to questions from outsiders on September 1st, saying that “we understand your concerns about privacy issues very well.” “We will change it if we don’t think about it, it will take some time.” The impact of the identification is also only used for verification and will not be saved and uploaded. The official said that the process will be explained in detail in the new version.
But such an explanation does not dispel the user’s doubts and concerns. Many netizens in the comment area ask whether the information in the back of the cancellation account will be completely deleted and cannot be recovered by technical means. ZAO is only one day, but the panic caused by it seems to be difficult to dissipate for a while.
Interestingly, the number one in the App Store’s comment area is a comment on ZAO, saying that ZAO’s current privacy storm is being “maliciously rhythmically”, pointing out that user protocols such as fasthand and vibrato are the same. There are similar terms, and ZAO is able to write the authorization and use in plain black and white.
It is undeniable that the face information on the Internet can be used for over-interpretation of face-to-face payment, but it also shows that people’s awareness of privacy protection in the era of big data is constantly increasing. People who thought that they had gone through the game will actually read it carefully, only from this. At one point, it is already a big step forward. The public opinion storm facing ZAO may also sound alarms for many companies that have been unscrupulous in the past. This user is really not easy to fool.