According to foreign media reports, in order to rebuild users' trust in their own platform as soon as possible, Facebook has used all kinds of tricks. They actually set up a reward scheme. Anyone who can find out about Facebook's data leakage can get a bonus of up to $40000.
On Tuesday, us time, Facebook officially launched a new reward program. As long as users can find data abuse on their own platforms, they can easily take the minimum bonus of $500, while those who catch "big fish" can win the prize of $40000 alone. Across the industry, Facebook is definitely the first to pay people to monitor whether they have data abuse problems.
'this project can help us locate data abuse problems that are not related to security vulnerabilities. If it goes well, it will be able to cover every corner of the Facebook platform, help us find problems similar to those of Cambridge analytics in advance, so that Facebook can make rectification as soon as possible. "Said Alex Stamos, chief security officer of the social giant.
Questions with enough evidence to get Facebook's attention will be reviewed by the vulnerability and data abuse reward team, and then the social giant will decide how to respond based on the investigation report. Possible scenarios include shutting down data abuse applications, prosecuting data leakers, or conducting on-site investigations of companies that sell or purchase unauthorized data.