Facebook Will Now Pay You Up To $40,000 To Report Data Abusers

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SOURCE: ANDROID HEADLINES

URL: https://www.androidheadlines.com/2018/04/facebook-will-now-pay-you-up-to-40000-to-report-data-abusers.html

By Dominik Bosnjak


Facebook will now pay you up to $40,000 for reporting a single data abuser, the company announced Tuesday, having detailed its new data abuse bounty program meant to encourage the online community to help the social media giant police its own platform and prevent another incident reminiscent of the Cambridge Analytica ordeal that’s still unraveling.

Anyone who reports a Facebook app developer that abuses collected user data or harvests it in an improper manner and has compromised over 10,000 users through such activities will be eligible for a reward starting at $500 and ending at the aforementioned quintuple-digit figure, the company said.

Facebook is quick to point out that its new bounty program is meant to target data abuse and not just collection, with the former being defined as a clear breach of its Terms of Service that poses a privacy risk for users.

The Menlo Park, California-based social media giant still reserves the right to assess reports on a case-by-case basis and could possibly withhold a reward based on its perception of privacy violations.

The firm also won’t reward reports it was already aware of and is investigating even if the thereof haven’t been publicly disclosed beforehand. The bounty program only applies to data misuse cases on Facebook and doesn’t span the company’s other properties such as Instagram.

Data abusers that Facebook is specifically targeting with the initiative are those who practice social engineering, push malware, or rely on growth hacks to mislead users into installing their apps en masse before harvesting their data for profit in a surreptitious manner.

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