“I can understand how, with anything involving Russia these days, there is that instinctive flinch, but I must say that I would be hard-pressed to see what the Russian authorities would want from this app.”
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FaceApp privacy: Russian state unlikely to interfere with hit app, security experts claim
In The News, 18 July 2019Russia, Future UK Cyber Security Strategy Project
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