Facebook Pledges Funding to Nonprofit Election Security Group
Just last week, Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center launched Defending Digital Democracy, an across-the-aisles bipartisan effort to find ways to protect against election hacking. The group includes campaign managers from Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney's presidential campaigns, as well Google and Facebook security staffers. A new report says that Facebook will also provide an initial funding of $500,000 to the nonprofit.
Facebook's chief of security Alex Stamos announced the initial amount during the opening of the Black Hat information security conference in Las Vegas, but did not reveal how much Facebook would spend in total.
"Right now we are the founding sponsor, but we are in discussions with other tech organizations," Stamos told Reuters before the speech. "The goal for our money specifically is to help build a standalone ISAO (Information Sharing and Analysis Organization) that pulls in all the different groups that have some kind of vulnerability."
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