NBC晚间新闻 爆火相片应用引发隐私担忧

It's an Internet challenge promising¹ a glimpse of your future. Wrinkles, saggy² skin, gray hair and all. There's this wrinkles everywhere. First shared by people who stumbled upon something called Face app. I just feel like it is not what I'm gonna look like when I'm older. Then quickly spreading through social media transforming the likes of Justin Beiber, Kim Kardashian, not even the rock immune to virtual old-age. Today it's the number one app on iphones and Androids, more than a hundred million downloads. You basically take a picture then click here. And oh yikes! But where exactly are these pictures going and how are they being stored? Turns out the developers based in Russia. In a statement the company says user data is not transferred to Russia.

But in their Terms of Service, you agree to the transfer and storage of your information in and to the US and other countries. This is essentially³ creating a surveillance technology industry that's going to be worth billions of dollars. And will always know what you look like. Think Minority Report when Tom Cruise walks by stores that know him by name. But experts say while there is concern other companies are collecting a lot more information than what you might look like down the road. Sites like Facebook and Google those services look at all the different parts of your life. Where you go, what you look like, what you buy. So is this app any worse than they are? A question we all should ask as we face the future.

这是一个预示着你的未来的互联网挑战。皱纹、松弛的皮肤、灰白的头发等等。到处都是皱纹。第一个分享的是偶然发现Face应用的人。我感觉这不是我老的时候看起来的样子。然后这个应用在社交媒体上迅速传播，改变了贾斯汀·比伯、金·卡戴珊等人的形象，甚至连巨石强森都无法幸免于虚拟变老。如今，它是苹果和安卓系统上的排第一的应用，下载量超过1亿次。你只需要拍一张照片，然后点击这里。呀，来了！但这些照片究竟去了哪里，它们是如何存储的呢？原来应用的开发者来自俄罗斯。该公司在一份声明中表示，用户数据没有转移到俄罗斯。但他们的服务条款中显示，您同意将您的信息在美国和其他国家传输和存储。这实际上是在创造一个价值数十亿美元的监视技术产业。而且永远都知道你长什么样。想想《少数派报告》里汤姆·克鲁斯走过那些知道他名字的商店时的情景。但专家表示，尽管有人担心这一点，但是其他公司收集的信息会比你未来的样子多得多。像脸书和谷歌这样的网站在注视着你生活的方方面面。你去了哪里，你长什么样子，你买了什么东西。所以这个应用比它们更糟糕吗？在我们面临未来的时候，我们都需要思考这个问题。

1 promising   

adj.有希望的，有前途的

参考例句：

• The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
• We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。

2 saggy   

松懈的，下垂的

参考例句：

• Daisy: Would you still love me if I were old and saggy? 当我的皮肤变得又老又松弛时，你还会爱我吗？
• My darling, if my breasts were saggy, would you still love me? 这是女人最担心的一个问题。

3 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。