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Christopher Wylie

Christopher Wylie 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. The documents were centered around Cambridge Analytica's alleged unauthorized possession of personal private data from up to 87 million Facebook user accounts, which was 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.

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