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

Posted by msmash on from the a-day-late-and-a-dollar-short dept.

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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  1. Better idea by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

  2. Report Der Zuck by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    Hello, I would like to report Mark Zuckerburg please!

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    1. Re:Report Der Zuck by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 3, Insightful

      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.

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      "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  3. lol sure by o_ferguson · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I reported a bug under their last bounty program and they said "while this is a bug, and we will fix it, it's not a 'security bug' so we won't be paying you for reporting it." I hope they die in a fire.

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  4. Re:DUMP TRUMP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Moron? Is he dumber than you?
    Can you do what he did then?
    Left rage never stops being amusing because you could not give a fuck about what Obama and Hillary did because identity politics is noble.
    Obama was worse than Bush and did a lot more damage and all you fucks care about is he wasn't white so he gets a pass.

  5. Hello Facebook? by forkfail · · Score: 2

    Yes, I'd like to report Facebook, Inc. It seems that they have provided APIs through which they sell private data to anyone with a bank account and a keyboard.

    Where can I pick up my check?

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    Check your premises.
  6. Proper vs Improper Abuse by Tominva1045 · · Score: 2

    So improper abuse is when you skim data off Facebook and market to those people elsewhere. Proper abuse is when you do a Google search on a product and two minutes later it's in your Facebook feed. Got it-

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    Cogito Ergo Sum