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Jun 19, 1989 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 35 years old
Canadian whistleblower and former director of research at Cambridge Analytica
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About Christopher Wylie
- Christopher Wylie (born 19 June 1989) is a Canadian data consultant who previously worked at Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm led by Alexander Nix. In 2018, he released a cache of documents prompting the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, giving The Guardian documents that described the secret workings behind Cambridge Analytica.
- centering around Cambridge Analytica's alleged unauthorized possession of personal private data from up to 87 million Facebook user accounts, obtained for the purpose of creating targeted digital advertising campaigns.
- The campaigns were based on psychological and personality profiles mined from the Facebook data which Wylie had commissioned in a mass-data scraping exercise. Wylie's revelations triggered government investigations on both sides of the Atlantic and raised wider privacy concerns.
- He appeared in the 2019 documentary The Great Hack.
