Everyone seems to be using FaceApp, an application that has taken social media by storm. The app is Russia-based, and it's now raising some serious privacy concerns.

This image-altering application transforms your photos using artificial intelligence. It makes the person in the pictures look older or younger or with added facial hair.

The app can also show what you would look like if you switched genders.

Since the app's release in 2017, many celebrities have hopped to this new trend, posting pictures of their youthful, current, and older selves.

And over a million users have since downloaded the application from Google Play Store.

FaceApp is also the most popular app in the Apple Store's "Photo and Video" app section.

The FaceApp terms read:

"You grant FaceApp a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate… distribute, publicly perform, and display your User Content."

FaceApp's Privacy Concerns

According to some United States senators, apps such as FaceApp "could pose national security and privacy risks for millions of U.S. citizens."

And the legislators are requesting the FBI and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to look into these concerns.

In a letter to the FBI and FTC, Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wrote:

"In particular, FaceApp's location in Russia raises questions regarding how and when the company provides access to the data of U.S. citizens to third parties, including potentially foreign governments."

"I ask that the FBI assess whether the personal data uploaded by millions of Americans onto FaceApp may be finding its way into the hands of the Russian government or entities with ties to the Russian government."

A small business lawyer, Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, explained what the app's "User Content" really means.

She tweeted:

"If you use #FaceApp you are giving them a license to use your photos, your name, your username, and your likeness for any purpose including commercial purposes (like on a billboard or internet ad)."

FaceApp Developers Deny the Allegations

Though the app developers have claimed that they're not doing anything malicious with your images, the app's privacy policy means your face could end up anywhere, including on billboards or internet sites.

They could also use your photos in new artificial intelligence testing and training.

In a statement, the app developers denied it sold or shared any data with third parties.

"We don't have access to any data that could identify a person."

"We only upload a photo selected any a user for editing, and we accept requests from users for removing all their data from our servers."

Always Read Apps' Privacy Policy

To use the app's features, you must agree to the" Privacy Policy" of this application. But most of us tend to ignore reading these policies as sometimes they're hard to understand or even scary.

Even if you uninstall the app, the developers already have access to your previously uploaded photos. And if your face appears on billboards, you'll not be compensated or alerted.

Many people are now warning against these apps. Users tend to lose their personal information in exchange for these entertainment applications.

Steve Sammartino, a business technology expert, warned:

"Your face is now a form of copyright where you need to be careful who you give permission to access your biometric data."

"If you start using that willy nilly, in the future when we're using our face to access things, like our money and credit cards, then what we've done is we've handed the keys to others."