Google is expanding the Google Play Security Reward Program (GPSRP) to include all apps in Google Play with 100 million or more installs, and is launching a new Developer Data Protection Reward Program (DDPRP) and asking for information about data abuse issues in Android apps, OAuth projects, and Chrome extensions.
“The [DDPRP] program aims to reward anyone who can provide verifiably and unambiguous evidence of data abuse, in a similar model as Google’s other vulnerability reward programs. In particular, the program aims to identify situations where user data is being used or sold unexpectedly, or repurposed in an illegitimate way without user consent,” said Google engineers Adam Bacchus, Patrick Mutchler and Sebastian Porst.
“If data abuse is identified related to an app or Chrome extension, that app ..
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