FACEBOOK OFFERS REWARDS OF UP TO € 32,000 TO THOSE WHO ALERT ABOUT PRIVACY VIOLATIONS

Mark Zuckerberg’s company wants to avoid a new scandal like that of Cambridge Analytica, which stole personal information committed to more than 87 million users.

The social network Facebook is chastened. The hard knock of having to face their latest and most devastating crisis of confidence by users has been expensive. Loss of millionaire sums on the stock market and constant negative publicity in all the media that still try to recover. The Cambridge Analytica scandal, which confirmed the theft of personal information from more than 87 million users for allegedly using it in favor of the election where Donald Trump proclaimed himself president of the United States, has caused Facebook to put its batteries in what to security is concerned.

Now it asks for the help of the users, so that they themselves are the ones who report the breaches of the confidentiality agreements that sign the applications that are used through the platform. They do not want to repeat a case similar to the last, so they have created the program “Data Abuse Bounty”, whose objective is for users to report and provide evidence that an application is being used improperly, commercializing with the data of users or taking advantage of them for different scams or influencing political processes.

The rewards that one can have access to, depending on the report that is carried out, will have a value that ranges from 400 to 32,000 euros. One of the journalists who uncovered the case of Cambridge Analytica has already rushed to ask for his. That’s how he joked on Twitter.

As we see, Facebook is trying to do everythingpossible to wash its image and show transparency. In fact, you have even left a link on your help desk page within the toolbar of your application so that you can see to what extent your information has been compromised. Although it should be noted that the vast majority of cases have been reported in the US.

So if you want to become their detectives against this misuse of information … you know. Open your eyes wide, there is a reward.