Hi and welcome back to Sabare reasons malicious life I'm Ran Levy. Ah, 2019. What a time to be alive. Remember when you could, you know, go places and do things?

When are big problems were college admissions scandals and what Harry and Megan were going to name

the baby.

One of the little things I remember from 2019 was a trend.

I'm sure most of you out there did it yourselves

when you'd take a picture of yourself and then your phone

would make you look like the opposite gender or much older.

My kids were into that.

I wasn't really.

To be fair Ron, it really only works if your face doesn't already look extremely old.

For your information, Nate, I had several people tell me I'd be very attractive as a woman.

If it wasn't for the beard, that is.

Anyway, the most famous of those gimmicky apps was called Face App.

It was popular worldwide, more so than you even remember. There was a period

right around the middle of the year when literally hundreds of millions of people were taking selfies on Face App every week.

Not even the dancing Snapchat hot dog could touch those numbers.

There were a few struggles here and there who weren't into Face app.

For example, some of you might have had concerns about privacy.

Who were you handing your pictures to what happened to them after you got bored and stopped playing with the filters?

If you read the app's terms and conditions, you wouldn't have felt any better about it.

Still security and privacy concerns rarely become viral.

Most people didn't worry about such things until one key fact broke open the floodgates. On July 17th, 2019, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer wrote a letter to the Chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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