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AI and the SEC Whistleblower Program

Schneier on Security

In 2009, after Bernie Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme was exposed, Congress authorized the SEC to award bounties from civil penalties recovered from securities law violators. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is engaged in a modern-day version of tax farming. It worked in a big way.