In this time of crisis, while many of us remain to be quarantined in home, we can only fiddle with our mobile devices and gadgets to let time passes by. Technology has brought a lot of help for people who rely on it for work, study, or just for entertainment. Suddenly this week, the controversial Russian photo image editor FaceApp returns on the limelight. With new and updated features, FaceApp re-emerged as the most used app over the week. The app's popularity isn't new. In 2019, the app stormed headlines on various news sites because of privacy data issues.  FaceApp quickly defended the issue and clarified that the app only uploads a photo selected by a user for editing.  "We never transfer any other images from the phone to the cloud. We might store an uploaded photo in the cloud. The main reason for that is performance and traffic: we want to make sure that the user doesn’t upload the photo repeatedly for every edit operation. Most images are deleted from our servers within 48 hours from the upload date,” said FaceApp CEO Yaroslav Goncharov in interviews last year. FaceApp admits though that legally, the app’s terms states — and whoever might buy it or work with it in the future — the right to do whatever it wants, through an “irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable sub-licensable license.” Pretty scary. Right? But most, if not all, apps that we are using today have asked us permissions into which particular settings of our phone they can be granted access upon our installation. Many times, we just checked the box and go on, even brushing off the terms of agreement portion. Little did we know, that there are certain parts of the agreement that we've allowed the app to secure permission from us to do whatever it has to do on our devices. Maybe, it's time that we need to read thoroughly all the steps in process before we finally okay the app we're about to install. It's the most smartest thing to do rather before than naysaying on social media about the harmful effects and privacy security threats these apps could do to us. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, along with the many mobile applications have underlying clauses inside the terms of agreement that with or without our knowledge might have allowed them to invade our data privacy. On that note, let's take a look at the men in Philippine politics who made our community quarantine days either entertained or not through headlines they've all been part of. Thanks to FaceApp, photos of anyone can be manipulated, including these gentlemen.   Were you entertained? Like what we've mentioned above, with FaceApp we can easily manipulate any photos in phones and edit them on the face gender-swapping app. This was for fun, and for all of you to know, that anybody, strangers or even your friends and loved ones, can pull up any images on the internet and save them on their devices, which they can edit afterwards. It's cool if they'll be using this for pure entertainment. But if these images fall into the wrong hands, that's where and when the problems start. FaceApp is fun and entertaining but you might want to read more about the pros and cons of installing this app on your devices. Just to be sure.