Facebook Announced a Data Abuse Bounty Program

The social network will reward people who report misuse by app developers

Facebook has already made verbal commitments to better safeguard users’ personal data, and Tuesday, the social network made a financial commitment.

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, head of product security Collin Greene announced in a Newsroom post that the social network launched the Data Abuse Bounty program with the aim of rewarding people who report misuse of data by application developers.

Greene wrote, “This program will reward people with firsthand knowledge and proof of cases where a Facebook platform app collects and transfers people’s data to another party to be sold, stolen or used for scams or political influence.

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