ZAO, as a free product, is in a completely free state, and a large number of new and old video clips are used inside the product, with huge user traffic. It is reported that users must register and log in through the mobile phone number when using it, and then upload the dynamic facial pictures taken by the mobile phone to make videos. Even if the user chooses to use static pictures in the mobile phone, it should be verified by shooting dynamic videos.
A privacy protection practitioner pointed out that ZAO's user privacy agreement has laid a lot of mines, so I suggest you use it with caution.
What is even more worrying is that ZAO involves sensitive personal information such as face recognition. In its privacy policy, the user privacy information collected by ZAO includes: portrait and facial recognition features of faces, identity information such as ID cards, military officers' cards and passports, which is the core of privacy.
These regulations have also aroused doubts from the legal profession. Zhu Wei, deputy director of the Communication Law Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, reminded that ZAO has great security risks, and the relevant agreements violate the relevant provisions of the Consumer Protection Law and the Cyber Security Law. He also reminded that even if ZAO goes offline, the retained user information should be processed centrally to ensure security.
On September 3rd, ZAO issued a statement in the official Weibo, saying: As a start-up product, it really failed to consider everyone's core concerns, and it has been reflecting and revising these two days. And the disputes caused by the user agreement are explained at four points.
ZAO said that personal facial biometric information will not be stored; Without collecting personal biological characteristics, the fictional image presented by technology superposition can approximate the naked eye, but it is not the real information of the user; Using ZAO will not generate payment risk; When a user deletes information or cancels an account, ZAO will delete the corresponding information according to relevant laws and regulations. At present, some users see the cancelled cache information and will fix it when updating the version in the future. On the morning of September 1 day, the sharing link of ZAO WeChat was stopped. The page shows that "this webpage has security risks and has been complained by many people".