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FaceApp is enjoying another viral moment fueled by celebrity selfies, while sparking dire warnings from security and privacy experts. Now politicians in Congress are calling for an investigation and the DNC ordered Democratic staffers to delete the app from their phones. Is FaceApp being singled out unfairly? After all, most mobile are about as ethical as Stephen Colbert’s mythical PonyPoints app. Let’s look at five FaceApp media myths: FaceApp puts your photos in the cloud

The ACLU conducted a controversial experiment last week with Amazon’s popular face matching software Rekognition. They ran photos of every member of Congress against a database of criminal mugshots. Twenty-eight members of Congress matched as potential criminals, many of them people of color. One of the 28, Rep. John Lewis, wrote a letter to Amazon asking them to “address the defects of this technology in order to prevent inaccurate outcomes.” If ACLU’s intent was to focus co