New Profile Pic app

This newprofilepic.com screenshot shows how the website and app New Profile Pic converts an Associated Press photo of actress Elizabeth Olsen into a cartoon- ...

New Profile Pic’s developer also created ToonMe and PhotoLab, which have been around for years and have more than 150 million installs on Google Play with no evidence of stealing money or giving users’ data to the Kremlin. “Nevertheless, your photos (or any other data) are NOT sent to Moscow. All our apps are server-based and user images are uploaded to Amazon AWS / Microsoft Azure servers located in the US. This is necessary in order to apply all those fancy effects driven by AI technologies.” We are a BVI (British Virgin Islands) company with development offices in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus,” a statement said. Sometimes they’ll have ads in these apps, and so you click on the ad and it’ll build a little bit of a history about what your preferences are, that information helps advertisers.” Our data is used as a currency in the internet,” Jacobson told KCCI. “A lot of the time it’s just collecting data about our preferences. But some have also questioned its safety after some claimed the app “takes all your information and sends it to Moscow” as part of a Russian malware scam.

New Profile Pic is the hottest new smartphone app on the market. It's wildly popular, fun to use, and is facing claims that it's a nefarious scam.

The New Profile Pic website links directly to the company's privacy policy. In an email sent to Snopes, a spokesperson for New Profile Pic explains that — while the site's domain name was initially registered in Moscow — the company's founder has since moved out of the country. A screenshot circulating online shows that New Profile Pic's website was registered in Moscow. Furthermore, Daily Mail suggests that the app has connections with the Kremlin since it has a building "overlooking the Moscow River three miles from Red Square." It's a spicy angle to run with, but it's also one without much merit. The claims range from New Profile Pic harvesting heaps of user data, having dark connections with Russia, and even hacking people's bank accounts and stealing money from them. You can then download the photo and upload it to your favorite social media app — giving yourself a fun and unique profile picture. You download it on your phone, upload a picture of yourself, and New Profile Pic uses AI to transform it into what looks like a hand-drawn portrait.

They're likely using a free app called NewProfilePic Picture Editor, the latest social media craze. And while the new images may look glamorous, using the app ...

"All we can do is explain patiently that all our apps (including NewProfilePic) are NOT a threat," the response reads. "When you share intimate data like your face with an app like this, you have no way of knowing where that data will end up," Sullivan warned. "Same for the cat theory. "People have to understand that even if a person or company has every good intention of not sharing data with a government, they can be compelled to do so anyway," Sullivan said. "I really think people are crazy to use this app or anything like it," Sullivan said. "The app probably has an ongoing way of feeding information about you back to its owner, so I would delete it immediately," Sullivan said. "Frankly, I would give this advice if we found out the developer was based in New Jersey," he said. For that reason alone, don't do it." ("Hoovers" as in "vacuums," for those not up on British slang.) It was also based in Russia, and the FBI ended up investigating the app. Experts warn internet users not to download latest online craze New Profile Pic that hoovers up your details." They're likely using a free app called NewProfilePic Picture Editor, the latest social media craze.

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"All we can do is explain patiently that all our apps (including NewProfilePic) are NOT a threat," the response reads. "When you share intimate data like your face with an app like this, you have no way of knowing where that data will end up," Sullivan warned. "Same for the cat theory. "People have to understand that even if a person or company has every good intention of not sharing data with a government, they can be compelled to do so anyway," Sullivan said. "I really think people are crazy to use this app or anything like it," Sullivan said. "Frankly, I would give this advice if we found out the developer was based in New Jersey," he said. "The app probably has an ongoing way of feeding information about you back to its owner, so I would delete it immediately," Sullivan said. For that reason alone, don't do it." ("Hoovers" as in "vacuums," for those not up on British slang.) It was also based in Russia, and the FBI ended up investigating the app. Experts warn internet users not to download latest online craze New Profile Pic that hoovers up your details." They're likely using a free app called NewProfilePic Picture Editor, the latest social media craze.

Sure, you want a glamorous Facebook profile picture, but at what cost?

"All we can do is explain patiently that all our apps (including NewProfilePic) are NOT a threat," the response reads. "When you share intimate data like your face with an app like this, you have no way of knowing where that data will end up," Sullivan warned. "Same for the cat theory. "People have to understand that even if a person or company has every good intention of not sharing data with a government, they can be compelled to do so anyway," Sullivan said. "I really think people are crazy to use this app or anything like it," Sullivan said. "Frankly, I would give this advice if we found out the developer was based in New Jersey," he said. "The app probably has an ongoing way of feeding information about you back to its owner, so I would delete it immediately," Sullivan said. For that reason alone, don't do it." ("Hoovers" as in "vacuums," for those not up on British slang.) It was also based in Russia, and the FBI ended up investigating the app. Experts warn internet users not to download latest online craze New Profile Pic that hoovers up your details." They're likely using a free app called NewProfilePic Picture Editor, the latest social media craze.

Experts believe the Facebook app is sending data to Russia, with the company behind it based in an apartment complex overlooking the Moscow River.

A spokesperson from the new app told the Mail Online: "We are a BVI company with development offices in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus," and said they do not share any user information in a way that is not listed in their privacy policy. Is the New Profile Pic app a scam? Hundreds of thousands of people have been updating their profile pictures via the new app in the latest online trend, but many are unaware that their information, including photographs, is being sent to a company registered in Moscow.

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NewProfilePic, launched the company PHO.TO, is a mobile phone picture editing application that can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play.

“We understand that due to the current events in Ukraine, any connection to Russia could raise suspicions. “I personally was born in USSR in Moscow and moved to Krivyi Rih being two months old. “It is true that the domain was registered to the Moscow address. By now the address has been changed in order to avoid any confusion. The app’s website states: “The world around us is fast-paced and always evolving. Let it be different, always new and…

It's called the "New Profile Pic" app. You may have seen your friends on social media use it recently to create a cartoon version of themselves. Some have speculated on if the app has malicious origins. Advertisement. Information was circulating online ...

A spokesperson for Photo Lab, the Linerock brand that operates NewProfilePic, said the claims being made against the app are not true, and Snopes and “found ...

Other apps also collect a significant amount of user data. For instance, TikTok says that it collects users’ email addresses, phone numbers, browsing history, and their approximate location. That information may be used for advertising, product personalization, and other functions of the app, according to the app’s privacy details in the App Store Some of that data is collected by the app but not linked to a user’s identity, the policy says, including user ID and device ID data, advertising data, crash data, product interaction information, and a user’s photos and videos, according to the policy. According to the app’s privacy policy on the App Store, NewProfilePic may collect some data that “may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies.” That data includes “identifiers” or your “device ID,” advertising data, crash data, and “product interaction,” the policy says. According to Snopes.com, claims began to spread around the internet that the app was installing malware onto users’ devices, that its parent company was based in Moscow and sending information to the Kremlin, and that the app was illegally stealing other information from users’ phones.