Karachi (Rafiq Mangat) Entertainment filter or data risk? Privacy Concerns Raised on AI Trend, Filter Full Biometric Scanning of Faces, Think Before You Click, Be Careful in Sharing Photos, Can Change Your Password but Not Your Face, Impossible to Get Back if Facial Data is Leaked, User Photos Fear of Training AI Models and Selling to Third Parties, Consider Potential Risks, 1980s-Style Photo Alteration by Artificial Intelligence on Social Media in Recent Weeks Increasingly popular, with millions of users providing their photos to various AI apps and platforms, the trend has raised serious concerns about biometric data security, privacy and potential data misuse, with the US Federal Trade Commission and other regulatory bodies warning that the process is not just a fun filter but a complex biometric analysis based on facial structure, eye distance and other unique characteristics, whose data is not only permanent but can also be irreversible if leaked. While experts say this information can be used to train AI models, sell it to data brokers, prepare deepfakes and use it in monitoring systems, users are advised to review apps’ privacy policies, not grant unnecessary permissions and consider potential risks before providing personal photos to any AI tool. According to the report, when users upload their photos to AI platforms, it’s not a simple photo filter process but a complex biometric analysis.