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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. They can be filed on the basis of public data, as long as the whistleblower brings original analysis. It worked in a big way.