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🔥 As FaceApp Goes Viral, So Do Concerns About Privacy, Russia Ties
FaceApp爆紅的同時，背後卻是資安漏洞？
- go viral 迅速竄紅（就像病毒viral一樣）
🧐 Just as quickly as a free photo-editing app went viral among smartphones users this week, it drew a backlash that exposed growing concerns about digital privacy and the potential for abuse from overseas actors.
本週，一款免費的手機修圖應用程式迅速走紅，但同時也因為國外演員的濫用，引起了強烈反彈，暴露出人們對數位隱私的日益擔憂。
- backlash （社會或政治方面的）強烈反應；強烈反對
✏️ FaceApp, which was developed in Russia and lets users upload photos of people’s faces that they can then alter to appear older or younger, saw a spike in popularity this week. The surge was driven by such celebrities as LeBron James and the Jonas brothers posting images on social media of what they might look like decades in the future.
FaceApp 開發於俄羅斯，用戶可以上傳臉部照片，改變自己臉的樣貌，讓自己看起來更老或更年輕，本週人氣暴漲。爆紅的原因是勒布朗．詹姆斯和喬納斯兄弟等名人在社交媒體上發布了他們老了之後可能的模樣。
- alter 修改；改變，（使）變化
- be driven by 受…所驅使
- spike 上升至非常高的數量（價格或程度）
🐍 Launched in 2017, the app has been downloaded more than 95 million times world-wide, with more than 20 million of those downloads occurring since July 11, according to estimates from Sensor Tower Inc., a mobile analytics firm. It is most popular in India, followed by the U.S., and is currently the No. 1 downloaded iPhone app in all but one of the 84 markets the firm tracks.
該應用程式推出於2017年，根據移動分析公司Sensor Tower Inc.的估計，該程式的全球下載量已超過9500萬次，其中2000多萬次的下載是在7月11日之後。FaceApp 在印度最受歡迎，其次是美國，目前在該公司追蹤的84個市場中，幾乎所以地區都是iPhone app store的排名第一，只有一個市場例外。
- occur （尤指事故及其他意外事件）發生
✍️另外有個常見的說法是it occurs to me that… (突然想到.../突然冒出...的念頭)
註：此新聞為去年7月18日之報導，故數據可能已有變動，近期FaceApp因為推出「變性」功能而再度爆紅，攻佔各大社群媒體版面。
＃誰能比我正？
＃照片秀起來
未完待續...
究竟為何它的隱私安全引人擔憂
背後又跟什麼政治陰謀有關？
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