Facebook Launches Bug Bounty Program To Report Data Thieves (cnet.com)

Facebook on Tuesday launched a data abuse bug bounty program, just hours ahead of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony to the Senate judiciary and commerce committees in Washington, DC. The bug bounty program is asking for people to report any apps that abuse data on Facebook, and it offers a reward based on how severe the abuse is. From a report: "While there is no maximum, high impact bug reports have garnered as much as $40,000 for people who bring them to our attention," Collin Greene, Facebook's head of product security, said in a post. The new program comes almost a month after the New York Times and the UK's Observer and Guardian papers revealed that Cambridge Analytica, a voter profiling firm, took advantage of a Facebook app to siphon off personal information on 87 million people. The scandal has fanned the flames of a backlash against Facebook by lawmakers and users.

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Better idea

[110010001000]

Here is a better idea: do it yourself. You know, actually monitor your website and stuff. It is a radical idea.

Re:Report Der Zuck

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

You can't report Zuck: he ain't a thieve, he's a con artist: he managed to convince his users that giving away their data is a negligible price to pay in exchange for a great service. People are slowly discovering it's the other way around, but it's too late now.