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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. The risks remain as long as submitting whistleblower complaints to the SEC is a viable business model. It worked in a big way.