Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: 'We spent $1m harvesting millions of Facebook profiles'

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Christopher Wylie, who worked for data firm Cambridge Analytica, reveals how personal information was taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters in order to target them with personalised political advertisements.
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@mikehenderson560 6 лет назад

As a friend said to me years ago: "The less that people know about you, the better off you are". There's nothing wrong with being invisible. In today's world, you have to be vigilant about protecting your personal space.

@andrewosborn4338 2 года назад

That's simply not possible today with the internet, they know who you are, where you are and there's nothing you can do about it other than go off the grid

@norpriest521 2 года назад

@@andrewosborn4338 That comment you replied to was from 3 years ago. I bet he or she is dead. Do not reply to dead comments.

@g2mcab Год назад

@@norpriest521 people don't get killed for commenting

@NickSBailey Год назад

@@norpriest521 I'll happily comment to threads that are 20+ years old, even if the person is dead the future isn't yet

@norpriest521 Год назад

@@NickSBailey tf

@xblueskiesburningx 6 лет назад

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” ― George Orwell, 1984

@marimiller9937 4 года назад

Nacho R oh Wow 😳

@patriciakedeni 6 лет назад

kinda ironic that a company that is about bringing people together through connection and shared experience is actually dividing and fragmenting and molding them all for money.

@jonathantan2469 6 лет назад

There's a good book that's been recommended to me. It's called 'The Filter Bubble' by Eli Pariser. When I first read the online reviews in 2012 a year after the book came out, many were pretty much negative. The author was derided as a 'technophobe', 'luddite', and 'sceptic' for not thinking that Google & FB will "make the world a better place". Time has been kinder to the book though...

@ourthoughtsaboutlife8673 4 года назад

@@jonathantan2469 Thanx i Will Look into iT✌🙏

@sweetlobster3939 4 года назад

ok boomer

@andreavanda4722 3 года назад

It's the satanic upside down.

@DiandraStarShine 3 года назад

no, you're confused: the *users* of Facebook are the PRODUCT. the "bringing people together," etc. part is just a rouse, the *BAIT.* in order to get people to be disarmed, so they'll be relaxed and willing to give up much of their personal data. that's all it has EVER been about for Facebook's founder and his executives - that and, the money, of course. because *remember,* it's a *MULTI-BILLIONS* of dollar$ *corporation.*

@haleIrwinG 6 лет назад

No wonder Facebook started to "filtered out comments" on certain threads. They only show you comments you "need" to see based on the data they get from you.

@optimize. 6 лет назад

Excellent interview and deep, deep respect for this man's courage to come out about this.

@slovokia 6 лет назад

Politics has become recursive mindfucking.

@danhoelck6270 6 лет назад

When was it not?

@slovokia 6 лет назад

It was harder to mindfuck people when you couldn’t individually tell every person what they wanted to hear without obviously contradicting what you told another person. The internet removes that obstacle.

@rumfordc 6 лет назад

+slovokia that's a good point

@shanecoleman5309 6 лет назад

It's not become anything. As long as there have been mass media they've been used almost exclusively to sell political agendas. This is just a product of those media becoming more sophisticated.

@mech5 6 лет назад

A long time ago I pursued jobs in advertising. I bailed when I realized it was all about manipulation as opposed to presenting the strengths of a product. There are so many parallels with politics.

@Riderules73 6 лет назад

Why watch Black Mirror if we have this already!

@andreapicco4003 6 лет назад

Instead of closing our FB accounts, we should fill them with content that diverges, slowly but steadily, from what we really are and from the ideas that we care about. Then, all these apps would harvest nothing but nonsense or, at least, they would have to filter through huge noise data.

@tigressnsnow 5 лет назад

THEY just read your comment.........maybe close your Internet, stop using your cell phone and your credit cards. Stop talking to everyone or anyone and then and only then may you be subject to NO ARTIFICIAL INFLUENCES. However to be on the safe side, GET OFF THE GRID so no one can track you. Accept the age we live in or CHANGE IT.

@selah71 4 года назад

Other ideas: Boycott the advertisers. If needed, the entire population go on strike and use no cell phones or computers. I know businesses can't do so but the general population can!

@MrBrindleStyle 4 года назад

@goduskychris Chris Godusky hence 'trance' and the lack of poetry

@auroracontreras4662 3 года назад

It works.

@Ashphinchtersayswhat 2 года назад

Just create many online versions of you. All in different directions..so to speak. 30 versions of you with all different ideals and likes

@sanakasraoui4280 6 лет назад

I feel like I'm watching an episode of "Black Mirror"

@longpp2289 3 года назад

“We risk fragmenting society” man if only he knew

@billp4380 6 лет назад

The operational terms here are, "Break society and remold it,"

@psr0459 6 лет назад

Bring order to chaos, but chaos first ??

@abbyc7815 6 лет назад

That exact phrase sounded so familiar I'm sure I've heard it before. Either Bannon said it outright or it's some kind of alt-right 4chan campaign goal

@Daniel121194 6 лет назад

The classic revolutionary mindset

@psr0459 6 лет назад

@Western Questions It's the Masonic doctrine - 'Morals & Dogma'. Masons - the chosen few, making good men better, but make them bad first.

@Erminestreet 6 лет назад

Thats it. I'm closing my Facebook account

@darganx 6 лет назад

Unicum I haven't used my Facebook in around 5 years for reasons like this.

@ChrisEckman 6 лет назад

Won't do you too much good. Facebook has tracking pixels across the internet. They track every site you go to, what you purchase, etc.

@kevinscales 6 лет назад

Chris Eckman - If you are signed in on Facebook they do

@larkhill2119 6 лет назад

Try Saying a random keyword something you would never buy on Skype and watch the adverts pop up the next day.

@bluehorseshoe444 6 лет назад

Unfriend all your contacts first.

@PowaPop 6 лет назад

NSA to Cambridge Analytica.... hold my beer

@msergio0293 6 лет назад

tofolux lol

@tommyhalili3975 5 лет назад

Too real

@pablorages1241 5 лет назад

Facebook gave the Obama campaign access to their ENTIRE DATABASE OF USERS during his election campaign this is a drop in the ocean in comparison !

@pablorages1241 5 лет назад

@Tobias Rieper ...no it's a fact ... Obamas campaign was offered facebooks entire database

@KJensenStudio 6 лет назад

Wow, this was eye-opening! A healthy dose of skepticism indeed. I commend him for having the nerve to come forward about this, and I hope he doesn't suffer a 'mishap' because of it.

@johnnyzito 6 лет назад

I signed off facebook two months ago and I'm never going back. It's crazy that those annoying personality quizzes really did turn out to be the downfall of humanity.

@icinfin117 6 лет назад

You haven't watched the full video/read the article if you think this is about personality quizzes being 'the downfall of humanity'.

@bluehorseshoe444 6 лет назад

I just unfriended all my Facebook contacts and deactivated my account.

@newtonkitty 6 лет назад

I call BS

@lockandloadlikehell 6 лет назад

bluehorseshoe444 I got a FR from you 12 hours ago.

@subpoprec 6 лет назад

Google is just as bad.

@MRTN13 6 лет назад

lol @ punching the pink out of his hair

@hankchinaski1095 6 лет назад

LOL yea whatever you fruit. When you reactivate it later tonight think of me.

@EyeLean5280 6 лет назад

"Steve Bannon saw himself as an intellectual." I love the way he put that.

@donaldlover1132 6 лет назад

DKJZ Exactly. And more often, Hillary, who I'm no big fan of, but she's just irrelevant. They still talk about her every day on Faux and Friends and The Five. I just tune in to hear about Donald. I Looooove Donald!!!

@TooManyChoices1 6 лет назад

EyeLean5280 And this pink-haired fairy thinks he changed the election lol.

@EyeLean5280 6 лет назад

TooManyChoices1, I assume you're 13 years old, right? Your opinion is noted.

@donaldlover1132 6 лет назад

TooManyChoices1 You automatically dismiss a guy with pink hair, but worship a sociopath with orange skin?

@haroman29 6 лет назад

what a soy boy

@Cecil_Augus Год назад

How this man and all those involved *are not locked in jail just comes to show how our society is rotten to the core*

@hellovicki6779 Год назад

I find this totally unethical. Then I thought on it and can see that it has been occurring already, particularly where politics is concerned. It is just a far more sophisticated means of targeted advertising. But, I also believe advertising is unethical and should be closely regulated. I have never had a facebook account, never appealed to me. I watch youtube and treat it as the new television.

@rickgrimesthewise5830 Год назад

@pedrolion4156 There are several current whistleblowers, such Christopher Whylie or Brittany Kaiser who didn't see the potential threat in their work or in Alexander Nix' believes. I think that although they were developing softwares which led to the final voters manipulation, they shouldn't be the ones, held accountable for the whole scheme. It's rather the Ceo of Cambridge-Analytica, Alexander Nix or the Ceo of Facebook at that time who should "rot in jail".

@brendancoots 6 лет назад

I feel like any ethical person would have instantly recognized that what they were doing was highly unethical and problematic once they started harvesting millions of profiles. I'm sure glad Mr. Wylie came forward, but his ethics are questionable at best.

@sha1841 Год назад

Agreed! He knew right away what they were doing had dire consequences.

@von1145 6 лет назад

Beautiful interview, well done to all at Guardian.

@boogieloo1831 6 лет назад

FB is such scum.

@TheChameleon2008 6 лет назад

True, but we need to blame the sheeps that use FB also because they are part of it.

@bartacomuskidd775 6 лет назад

I think you are limiting your field of view

@Scorpia161 6 лет назад

+TheChameleon2008 That raises a valid question--at what point can we expect people to be smarter, and when do we have to accept some people are just dumb or lazy in forming their own world views?

@gdnygma490 6 лет назад

I agree FB is cancer, worst than the cig companies that hide the fact that smoking gives you cancer

@litvenplayosu 6 лет назад

FB doesnt want them to do this. They have cut all of Cambridge Analytica's access to Facebook.

@TBONESIDEOFLIFE 6 лет назад

when Facebook first hit the scene my thought was, "this is jumping off a cliff and remembering you don't have wings!" not a face or a book of it. slowly going to back away from youtube as well. we are human lives, not a commodity to exploit.....get it?

@highvibee 6 лет назад

It’s striking how intelligent and wise wisselblowers are.

@Cecil_Augus Год назад

4:40 The part he was going to speak about the Mercer link to RenTech and algorithms was cut. I wonder why.

@eliasaries 6 лет назад

So this is the same plot as the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies, where a billionaire mogul attempts to sway public opinion.

@raymeester7883 6 лет назад

In a way false, in a way so true it already been done i.e. George Soros.

@Antman4656 6 лет назад

Elias Ben Of course because most movies are made by people who see the big picture of the system of greed and control we live in and try to purvey that to us. They literally show us how far these technologies could go to work for the Narcisists that own all the money and power. You think your free and yet you have to work most of your life. Stuck in traffic jams making money for a person higher up the chain than you and at the end of it you are more in debt than you started because everything is twice as expensive as it used to be. Welcome to the land of the real. The monetary system has you.

@chillout4now354 6 лет назад

I thought that's what commercials and social media were for? Why did Hillary spend billions of dollars to run commercials on TV if not to influence voters? You wouldn't run a Donald Trump commercial during a Jay-Z concert. This is simply the left's way of trying to say they can use media to influence people but conservatives can't!

@vianzlonomav6908 6 лет назад

We are in the cyberpunk fellas...

@TheArtkaw 6 лет назад

See triggered MAGAtards and Trump Humpers doing what they do is always good for a laugh.

@drmodestoesq 6 лет назад

If what this guy is saying is true...Mr. Zuckerberg doesn't come off too well with the assertions or implications.

@MaartenvanRossemLezingen 6 лет назад

Hmmhmh yes sophisticated sounding words uhuhhmmhm

@themostsecretscience6409 3 года назад

This week of October 4th-6th proves that Mark is terrible at thinking on his feet when under pressure about Facebook and it's data harvesting.

@mistergrieves 6 лет назад

looks like an extra from the 1995 movie Hackers

@elliottspence 6 лет назад

Very true haha.

@thementalcase313 6 лет назад

HACK THE PLANET!!!

@L14MA 6 лет назад

That guys gonna rollerblade home and play some wipeout

@Furtivo95 6 лет назад

that's irrelevant.

@TheMilenkata 6 лет назад

hahaha so true.

@justiceprevails8511 6 лет назад

I can sincerely state that that interview was unnerving and disheartening, yet so accurate because we've witnessed evidence of our cultural deterioration as a cohesive nation of shared values.

@julesmpc1314 6 лет назад

Thank you Dude. Do not regreat it. Its hard but we all need people like you. I would help you in any way. You are not alone. We need more people like you to have decent place to live.

@Irresistance 6 лет назад

This is why decentralization is the answer. Everybody should be the key to their own data and the sole guardian of it.

@lompocus 6 лет назад

What about when you click on a link in a website and it takes you 51 milliseconds cause ur in Nevada but it takes someone else 13 millis and that guy can only be not in Nevada and ur the only one clicking on links about Nevada.

@zebbleganubi723 6 лет назад

web 3.0 cant come fast enough! facebook is actually a great example of why centralised services are a bad idea. as long as i can remember people have disliked facebook but couldnt leave either because thats where everybody else was. other services came along like google+ that genuinely worked better in some ways but never made it because it was way too much effort for most people to move all your photos, posts, friends lists etc. if things were more decentralised you would have your photos/posts/whatever stored in one place, and then if your current social network turned bad all you would have to do is sign up for something else and then give it access to your data and you would be up and running again. in the long run it would force services to try harder since everybody could leave on a whim if they didnt

@UliaAB 6 лет назад

I genuinely can't imagine how decentralizing data would even work.

@cumMan270 6 лет назад

And decentralization has its own consequences too.

@astroko 6 лет назад

nope, people shouldnt GIVE information to stasi or facebook, or other surveillance companys if they care. otherwise. its your own fault.

@ispbrotherwolf 6 лет назад

I don´t have Facebook, I did see the problem from the start. As soon as you give over your info to a private company, you will be used. The same with Clouds, Google etc. Don´t give into the easy way of living, it makes the corporations the heads up and profit off you.

@1blessedsavior 6 лет назад

ISP BrotherWolf They can collect info from the Census, your voter registration in your county, the DMV, your social security number, your bank account, by looking at where you shop and the things you buy. You've stopped nothing. Do you own a smart phone? A smart tv? Have a cable box or satellite dish? Use the internet for anything? Yeah.....these devices all give info about you to someone. That info gets sold and resold. Well, you get the gist of what I'm writing here.

@ispbrotherwolf 6 лет назад

I know, that why I use money as much I can. But the again I don´t live in USA. Where I live, some of the right to privacy is still in place, but probably not for long. It is so F-ing horrid.

@BWolf00 6 лет назад

Ginger - I agree, there are numerous data sources and numerous companies buying the data to compile into targeted "information" that is in turn sold to any number of companies and even political concerns. Facebook, Google, Instagram are just a few of the sources and to believe that their data is not being funneled to political research/marketing companies is ridiculous. Also, understand this is the SOP for all political parties today and for the future to believe otherwise is incredibly naive. So, as best as I can figure Cambridge Analytica "violated" Facebook's "polices", but no laws - and to believe that that Facebook is a political neutral company is again naive.

@BWolf00 6 лет назад

BTW, to halt all data/record trails is nearly impossible today. Hell imagine my shock when discovered even the auto parts store is taped into the state DMV records. I went to NAPA Auto to get an oil filter but forgot which engine was in the vehicle...remember your VIN - "no problem" we'll look it up via your license number. But I do like to confuse the confuser...it's why I frequently LIE when entering some details on data tracking cards. The grocery and drug stores believe I'm 99yrs old according to the customer cards. I imagine there's someone surprised to find out a 99yr old needs extra large condoms...LOL

@clachanachoin3127 6 лет назад

I bet you don't even watch videos on RU-vid and comment on them either. Very wise.

@socdemigod 6 лет назад

Marketing culture is poisonous.

@brettking8663 3 года назад

Kinda weird that the whistleblower is on camera but the interviewer is hiding her identity

@peregrinegrace8570 6 лет назад

It really is time to switch off To go dark And to walk out Into the light This is all darkness...

@josefk5659 6 лет назад

Am I missing something? Is this shocking to anyone? What the hell did everyone think was happening with their personal data they publish on the internet?

@superstd 6 лет назад

the dumb one thinks that after you give them your personal info it would just be kept in their pocket to get warm or something xD every social media sell info to everyone who pays , this is not new xD

@jovaniolivares9460 6 лет назад

Seriously. Why is this news? I thought everyone knew thats how Facebook makes its money, by selling your information... did people really think it was a 'free' website?

@PHeMoX 6 лет назад

It's actually what makes him look like a bad Clinton ploy. Apparently the Trump campaign team already denied having used the CA stuff. Not that it had to, as the Wikileaks stuff had a much greater effect. No Russians involved there. An DNC leaker provided factual data that exposed Clinton. That's the end of the story. In some ways Trump is completely terrible, but Clinton definitely has no right to complain about anything. She never deserved to become president.

@tpickett123 6 лет назад

Josef K only idiots are shocked. The blog for angry white men? This guy drinks a lot of kool aid.

@jamesianv 6 лет назад

It's not the marketing stuff, it's the psychology profiles and the ability to manipulate. In Issac Issanov book the second foundation they could control one in a thousand and that was enough to control the Galaxy. It's news because we knew about Mercer and Cambridge but didn't know what they were doing exactly. Still don't know how we got into endless wars or how to get out.

@dustinellsworth7727 6 лет назад

#1! - Facebook and Google have been at this for years. It's their business model...

@Blitznstitch2 6 лет назад

Facebook sucks

@patriciakedeni 6 лет назад

how can most people not see facebbok's real twisted objectives and its bad influence on our lives years ago?

@Kcali111 6 лет назад

Ive always been anti Facebook since day one, and when people question me why.......this is why. People having a platform to hate on you, rob you of info and real life. How about go out and live REAL life ,thats what people need to do.

@PyroChimp75 6 лет назад

"You control the flow of information you control the people" Makes you wonder how 'free' the masses really are...

@arxvphoto809 6 лет назад

The interviewer could’ve ask much better questions. Like specifics on how they used and gathered data.

@nowseemefly 6 лет назад

ARXV Photo They won't. Cuz if they did, you'll find pretty much every IT company is doing the same thing.

@justgivemethetruth 6 лет назад

That is their IP and they are not going to give it away ... PLUS, when people know they are being manipulated, they become paranoid and thus immunized against the manipulations they know about.

@EvaGarciaGonzalez 6 лет назад

Read the article.

@johnculhane438 6 лет назад

Just watch Nix's presentations on YT. Amazing all this was legal. Wish he talked about Brexit also.

@arxvphoto809 6 лет назад

John Culhane no link? 😏

@dekaos 6 лет назад

How about you show us the uncut version.

@MannFace51 6 лет назад

I'll show you *my* uncut version

@shmackatrotsky5394 6 лет назад

Who knew that Cambridge Soundworks and Audio Technica would merge to form such a powerful adversary to modern, democratic nation-states? Not I, said the fly.

@JamieRowlandthejamieusrowlando 6 лет назад

Underrated comment

@kufie_smack5216 6 лет назад

Super powerful drivers paired with their signature horns to amplify the sounds you dont hear.

@mukatsuku1590 6 лет назад

the comment is a joke, which you (gobsmacked) totally missed. Which makes it even funnier!!

@robgilbert5527 6 лет назад

shmackatrotsky but but WUSSIA

@wildreams 6 лет назад

@gobsmacked Joke ✈️ Head 🤪

@henryzhang9915 6 лет назад

This guy is epic, love the word he use, great explanation.

@pizzaboy7949 6 лет назад

Henry Zhang you can tell he fears some questions about how serious and f***** upp this reallly Is

@isaiahsspontaneouscontent9111 4 года назад

He knows what he was doing and when he cashed in, then proceeds to bite the hand that gave him that wealth😄

@brettking8663 3 года назад

Go to your settings on Facebook and look at OFFLINE FACEBOOK ACTIVITY. It's kinda scary

@DaveHammondDublin 6 лет назад

needs to be very careful he doesn't come into contact with any russian nerve agent that is doing the rounds in the UK at the minute

@LtKharn 6 лет назад

Or to accidentally brutally stab himself in the back a couple of times.

@bartacomuskidd775 6 лет назад

Dave, this is common knowledge tech going way back.. this guy is no more a threat to peoples who go looking for the news they want to hear than a biology book is to Ken Hamm.. So, you can only imagine the true skullduggery that planted Russian was into.. But.. that is a interesting thought process.. how close are we to an apparatus, where a scorned bureaucrat.. politician.. oligarch.. CEO.. could influence, _physical_ impact.. as in Direct action.. onto someone with differing ideologies.. through influence, of state.

@woolfulrebellion 6 лет назад

Agree

@xxxxOS 6 лет назад

They are trying to blame US/UK corruption on Russia. Russia didn't poison anyone in the UK..just like Assad didn't gas his own people, Afghanistan didn't do 9/11 and Iraq didn't have WMD. Wake up. The oligarchs we should be scared of live in the US and the UK. They are scapegoating Russia to distract from their own corruption! There's no evidence what so ever no investigation. People need to stop blindly following what the corrupt tell them in the media!

@mikem5424 6 лет назад

Dave Hammond If the Russians wanted to kill the double agent why wouldn't they have done it when he was in jail in Russia

@toyotaprius79 6 лет назад

Butt load of respect for this dude agreeing to be interviewed. The poor dude's going to get a bounty on his head.. I hope not.

@Lerian_V 6 лет назад

He has a fall-out with Cambridge Analytica. They are in a legal battle, so it's understandable why he's taking his fight public.

@raymeester7883 6 лет назад

He must likely to face legal action. Nothing he said is really knew. Companies aim to do this or already do.

@ME-ol9gk 6 лет назад

Am I alone in thinking that technology is getting very dangerous.

@BartAlder 6 лет назад

No, definitely not alone.

@rumfordc 6 лет назад

oligopolies are very dangerous, no matter what level of technology

@BartAlder 6 лет назад

Great point Rumford, undeniably true - both propositions can be dead true at the same time, of course. Give an oligarch a devastating technical capacity and they are more dangerous to more people. Remove that technical capacity and they are still dangerous af.

@gin3868 6 лет назад

Its the way people use it, technology is neutral on itself as its not sentient

@LenVrijhof 6 лет назад

Nope, you're not alone. This is really getting out of hand. I live in the Netherlands, and the government is asking our permission to change the law so that our secret agencies can screen anyone suspicious and their entire social circle without their consent, and even share it with third parties and other countries. Every major power is hungry for your data, and I fear that it's going to get much worse, to the point we need to abandon technology completely to protect ourselves.

@mauram687 6 лет назад

Ironically, Christopher Wylie did not apply his "healthy skepticism" to his job and company mission

@d0uble_O 5 лет назад

He did but after he got crazy rich;)

@mcbaws21 4 года назад

d0uble _ 0 He was actually being paid way less than other people in the company. His salary was two to three times smaller than others’.

@Kreyzy195 3 года назад

Fact is: if you love your job, you're doing what you were preparing for and you're given best tools, to conduct an operation of such scale regarding your mission. You're not thinking about how those people who pay for this, are going to use your results. Waylie wasn't thinking about the political consequences or as of weapon but about whether or not this is going to work. It's the rich people behind him who weaponized his skills and from the very begining thought of data science as of way to control the world. Lesson for today: You also might be used and you wont even notice it.

@brunojl2 6 лет назад

Guys! It's surprising that you are all surprised about this... Once your data leaves your computer, it is not private anymore. Forget about companies worrying about your privacy and governments securing your data. That is absolute nonsense. You want your data being private? Unplug from the internet. Simple. Otherwise, keep calm and carry on.

@MayurPanghaal 6 лет назад

Not really.If youre on linux and do not use FB but steem on the blockchain,youre secure.

@brunojl2 6 лет назад

Fair enough. Allow me to rephrase: "99.9999999% of guys! It's surprising that you are all surprised about this... Once your data leaves your computer, it is not private anymore. Forget about companies worrying about your privacy and governments securing your data. That is absolute nonsense. You want your data being private? Unplug from the internet. Simple. Otherwise, keep calm and carry on."

@NEMO-NEMO 6 лет назад

Mayur Panghaal can you repeat that in English so maybe someone other than yourself can understand it’s meaning?

@creepersonspeed5490 6 лет назад

"How dare you try and change things for the Better????? Just accept it and keep your head down" Ps good luck getting a job without having a social media account

@AlwaysHereAndNow 6 лет назад

Mayur, can you please translate that in a way that I can understand it - knowing that I have a very basic understanding of computers and internet? Thanks.

@fingerhorn4 6 лет назад

One question that all whistleblowers need to answer, but are rarely asked: Why did they participate in this kind of activity IN THE FIRST PLACE? The usual answer, if any, is that "they saw the light", or "they got in too deep". In reality, they knew perfectly well what they were getting into right from the start.

@sha1841 Год назад

Absolutely! They provide themselves with convenient rationalizations

@thanhnguyenminh4704 Год назад

That's also why people wouldn't trust whistleblowers afterward. How can we trust someone who exposed themselves and whether the story they told is completely accurate?

@SaveManWoman 6 лет назад

Shocked!! Deleted my Facebook along with other social sites! Best move I have ever made!

@cellline7540 6 лет назад

ZTruth NY lol i never joined in the first place

@supercalifragilestic 6 лет назад

good on this guy for coming clean

@elizabethhuttinger 6 лет назад

This is a truy unbekievable story. Love the detail about movng the whole office to Cambridge when Steve Bannon came calling. Deceiving the deceiver.

@CommandoMaster 6 лет назад

If you post your personal info online, you are at risk of your info getting taken and used without your consent for any purpose.

@silenussancteoracle7626 6 лет назад

Which is not what is happened here because they consented to give their info away.

@lorenbooker9486 6 лет назад

You're missing the point of why this is a big deal. The reason this is so terrifying is not that our data has been used, or taken, but that they have been able to successfully use the metadata from our social media to spoon feed you misinformation to change your mind on a subject, not only that, it might be a website, or video, or blog that was specifically curtailed just for you, that no one else may have seen, it takes away the collective understanding of what is true or false. If everyone disagrees on how something happened because they've all read different accounts of it or seen different blogs or video's who is right? It's literally the ministry of truth out of 1984.

@silenussancteoracle7626 6 лет назад

A New Perspective Films that is exactly what Obama did with his targeted campain. Also, you must be ducking joking, have you ever been on the internet? You don't need advertisments, the lefty people are far more annoying, I'm European and I already got enough about people taking about white privilege and feminist supremacy, I voted left for 20 years, I will never vote left again, and I will do whatever I can to stop all immigration.

@judigemini178 6 лет назад

If you leave your house you’re at risk of getting mugged or killed by a mad man ...doesn’t make it your fault

@romulo353 6 лет назад

@SMD 014 No it isn't, it's actually very hard to know something, let alone everything about anything.

@jovaniolivares9460 6 лет назад

I thought everyone already knew this??

@bobrolander4344 6 лет назад

So did I .... 5 years ago. Then their stock value exploded a thousand fold. Humans are too stupid for evolution. Ever heard of that Dunning Kruger Effect? Let's apply that to species: What species _thinks_ it is the most genius of all? Yep. John Cleese is damn right: There is no hope.

@drv30 6 лет назад

Yeah it has been the business model from the start. It's no different from Google "personalized Ads", or "RU-vid Suggestions", it is literally the same kind of data analysis.

@hannahgray5146 6 лет назад

how

@clipstheonly2513 6 лет назад

nope, it has way more privacy breaches

@lohronnielelwoj2531 5 лет назад

lol i jus woke up i try log in said errr facebook shut down lol

@1bol390 6 лет назад

I'm sure there is RU-vid information being gathered by them also!!

@dmarsub 6 лет назад

VtochkaGtochka likes, dislikes comments/ videos watched, thats a load of data, especially when the profile is public then its all up for grabs.

@maximagreen7829 6 лет назад

If we are writing a comment (like now) we have to login into youtube/ google. Unless you logout as soon as you are done writing, google is collecting your data, too. And they can see and use the data, they watch you as you go switch this or that site or search for something. Do you still believe, those data experts with their algorithms can't profile your personality?

@jonathantan2469 6 лет назад

VtochkaGtochka It's not what you post. It's what you watch. For example you see a video about creating a survival knife. The algorithm recommends other survival skill videos to you. You also watched videos on jungle trekking, nature based tourism, etc. in the past. The data (viewing habits, comments, likes, dislikes, etc.) can be used by... say an environmentalist group to target you with material for fundraising or recommend more RU-vid videos with the goal of changing your behaviour over time. Or political ads by a party running on an environmentalist platform.

@jonathantan2469 6 лет назад

And by the way... RU-vid is owned by Google. Which collects info about your searches, your email, your map searches, your location history & travel, etc. Welcome to the Panopticon.

@anthonycloward2948 6 лет назад

glad people are finally talking about this

@elizabethowens8548 6 лет назад

anthony cloward. I know. It was obvious to me that this could be used easily for social engineering

@gringopapi6985 6 лет назад

its been talked about for years and years. Its called internet marketing 101. Only now some of the Kardashian and cat video crowd are coming over and learns something useful for once.

@seksualusis 6 лет назад

Thanks, Christopher, thanks Guardian.

@eggory 6 лет назад

"If we don't have any shared understanding, how can we be a functioning society?" Wise words.

@CarlaHolley 6 лет назад

So, at no point did Wylie stop and think "I'm working for evil"?

@CarlaHolley 6 лет назад

I guess like many statisticians and software coders, he got so far into making his model work that he didn't look up from his keyboard until it was too late.

@Phrancis5 6 лет назад

well that's kinda the "mad scientist" scenario. you're so caught up ego and inventing some awesome new thing that you don't stop to think how it could be used for evil

@Sound8VisionVibe 6 лет назад

Well he apparently did at some point (albeit a little late) because here he is blowing whistles. Unless its a planned part of a bigger game.

@conancat 6 лет назад

There are still boatloads of devs working in gambling or questionable data science industries like this guy. It's legally gray. Engineers and scientists, just like any human, can be susceptible to moral corruption in exchange of advancements.

@gaydona 6 лет назад

I think that is the point which we are witnessing.

@cfferry2002 6 лет назад

such a responsible human being, so concerned about society. I just wonder how much income he collected after bringing chaos to the world

@danhoelck6270 6 лет назад

A lot. Probably at least 250k.

@Jmavaro1 6 лет назад

Chris Ferry better late then never. It’s extremely difficult to be a whistle blower. we should be thanking him.

@kenmurray4005 6 лет назад

And what about you? What's the price of your soul?

@cfferry2002 6 лет назад

apparently you have a price that you would sell your soul for, and believe everyone else also would sell their soul for a price. my soul has never been for sale, but your assumption that I would sell my soul seems to confirm my feeling that you are just projecting. besides what would someone living a spartan life do without their soul ?

@gin3868 6 лет назад

Knowing that I did good, pissing off my old evil unethical bosses, and 200k

@JustinDeFouw 6 лет назад

Ads did not change my mind. Sorry but if you can be played by 'ads' or 'news' then you don't deserve to vote. Do your own research.

@davidrundle1366 6 лет назад

Justin DeFouw You're giving way too much credit to the average intelligence, and overestimating the time and energy people take to form independent, rational opinions.

@RKFCGSBGK 6 лет назад

It is smarter than all human beings. Not even the advanced mathematicians or scientists can understand their own work. It learns by itself and develops its own system so far advanced that it's playing chess against millions of people at once. Who is to say it didn't influence you? If you really believe you're unable to be influenced then maybe it worked perfectly?

@BenKensteEhNich 6 лет назад

Underestimating implicit memory and confirmation bias here... just finished my psychology course and wanted to brag a little... but seriously tho we can’t help it that’s how our brains are wired. Those adds and news have an influence on us whether we recognize it or not.

@tl2837 6 лет назад

RKFCGSBGK what is smarter than all human beings? Cambridge analytica is a huge scam. Their system isnt nowhere as impactful as they say it is.

@sanjeevansingh2123 6 лет назад

Justin DeFouw it's very easy to manipulate anyone if someone knows ur thought process, knows how you will react to wat. And the worst part you won't be knowing that ur being manipulated. It's is equivalent of a magical drug , tasteless , colourless, no smell but affects ur decision making.

@elliemccarthy3487 3 года назад

Brilliant Christopher the ONLY whistleblower

@jordanmcdaniel919 6 лет назад

Wow. Thanks for speaking out

@ashleykrolikowski5427 6 лет назад

i just get the feeling that he almost feels a sense of pride over what he did. i can see it in his facial expressions during certain parts of the interview. i can almost understand it though. at the end of the day he still did something incredible; he proved that this evil idea/thing was possible. but he also realized it wasn't the right thing to do. so maybe he feels pride and shame over all of it.

@BlackWolf6420 6 лет назад

Wow, just wow. Thank you for sharing.

@leandrodeangola 6 лет назад

just proud of not use this crooked Facebook bs !

@breakhart 6 лет назад

after snowden on NSA surveillance, now wiley on Cambridge Analytica data collection, I will not surprise if there are many more out there

@josemariadelgado6982 6 лет назад

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@ericpmoss 6 лет назад

You know, I used to think it would be great to write programs that would counter all this kind of thing, but there are too many people like Mercer, Bannon and Nix who see themselves winning the Game of Thrones, and too many techies that are "just solving interesting problems". I now wonder if the only way normal society can fight back is with pitchforks and torches.

@elijahthomas6976 2 года назад

currently getting my bachelors in computer science lets do it

@depthsothenso813 Год назад

Become a vigilante hacker.

@HumanRights4Everyone 6 лет назад

What exactly is he blowing the whistle on? Nothing illegal or unethical... Was he not aware that political advertisements existed?

@raymeester7883 2 года назад

He did. He also approached Steve Bannon to make him a client.

@markhunt1666 6 лет назад

Way to go dude.. Stay safe though. You made many really rich people mad

@phon14593 6 лет назад

That was heavy. If this is true, the same incident that took place in a fictional world of Watchdogs 2 is also present in real life. It's scary to think that we're being manipulated without noticing.

@timbuckthe2nd642 3 года назад

It's been happening since JFK died

@kingsufian07 6 лет назад

HE IS A HERO........... why? HE SPEAK THE TRUTH because people need to know. Thank you.

@aubreyjames8795 6 лет назад

after hearing omerosa speak for 20 minutes hearing this guys relaxed, untrained, concise voice is therapy. anyway this reminds me of homeland two seasons ago. this level of coercion is an obvious. people are so plugged into their electronics and the false sense of reality created through the internet.

@AzngameFreak03 6 лет назад

"Who do you trust." He had to think about it. He coudn't even say, "Myself." This is the world we live in. Where you can't even be confident enough to trust yourself. Am I living in reality? Or is this just Fantasy~

@nextlifeonearth 6 лет назад

"whom* do you trust. "

@snowhusk 6 лет назад

caught in the land slide, no escape from reality

@theWanAndOnly 6 лет назад

reality is but a construct of the human mind

@AzngameFreak03 6 лет назад

we mamat You sure?

@ewamahring 6 лет назад

Thank the universe for whistleblowers!

@armv7-m603 6 лет назад

Good thing I deleted my facebook account.

@randomaccessfemale 6 лет назад

One person does not make a difference. You are still in RU-vid.

@armv7-m603 6 лет назад

It's not about making a difference, it's about reducing the risk of my exposure to mass data harvesting. I use VPN's, TOR, and next to nothing google related. I am protected from a lot of things.

@PHeMoX 6 лет назад

The VPN's, TOR and so on most likely have caused you to end up on a black list somewhere already. You're not protected. It's smarter to change your behaviour, instead of trying to hide. You know, the good old 'hide in plain sight' thing. It'll always work better than anything else really. Now don't get me wrong, I've got nothing to hide anyway. But the idea that a VPN and TOR can prevent you from leaving any digital traces is frankly stupid. In case you don't know, internet traffic still goes through major nodes and those nodes are constantly being checked. In fact, deleting your Facebook account doesn't erase your previous online identity build up through Facebook anyway. Countless amounts of sites also have access to your profile information, deleted or not. In truth, we need regulation for this stuff, because in many ways these companies are more powerful than any government.

@armv7-m603 6 лет назад

You're making a lot of major assumptions about my internet activity here, I don't have time to address them all. I live in a free and open country. There is nothing illegal about VPN's. There is nothing illegal about TOR hence no "blacklist". " internet traffic still goes through major nodes and those nodes are constantly being checked." If you're using the right VPN's that don't log activity, have configured TOR for maximum anonymity and you're routing correctly, this wouldn't be the case. My facebook account had no personal information, little to no activity and was created with an encrypted burner email. I have no social media accounts with the exception of twitter. There are numerous ways to minimize your digital footprint. You can hide your identity by having hopping through relay servers in large numbers of countries.

@ifanmorgan8070 4 года назад

He doesn’t mention if CA acquired private profile information or data from public profiles only.

@anton-scottgoustin5425 6 лет назад

Chris is a gem--he is both extremely intelligent and probably completely honest. I propose that he stand on the fourth chair in Alexanderplatz Berlin

@davidf4803 6 лет назад

Knowledge is power; and giving all your knowledge away to a company like Facebook is DANGEROUS!

@seanomathuna97 6 лет назад

he does a good English accent

@maximagreen7829 6 лет назад

he is canadian

@wrighj 6 лет назад

Lapsy Pa I’m English and he doesn’t sound English at all wtf lol

@fabiennefertiti3017 6 лет назад

He is a Canadian and sounds like a Canadian

@seanomathuna97 6 лет назад

Carlos Enrique you ball so hard Carlos

@seanomathuna97 6 лет назад

bruh

@bobbymkd457 6 лет назад

Do we need a whistleblower for this???

@MsSera21 6 лет назад

He's violating a non-disclosure agreement to do these interviews, and I believe that what they did breached the Data Protection Act, so I'd say so.

@LewisMarkMonticello 6 лет назад

Well then you missed the whole point. If you did not understand how the algorithms work you are a target.

@kirdiekirdie 6 лет назад

There are some weird sound issues, I can hear him responding but not the person asking the questions mostly.

@benjaminf.3760 6 лет назад

Which app? He's talking about how "the app" could retrieve information from the entire friend network of a person who was using "the app". Which app was it then? Is it still out there in the facebook app store?

@Brett_S_420 4 года назад

His impression of Nix giving his spiel is the only time I've laughed while learning anything about this clusterf@&$ that this company helped create.

@keving2115 6 лет назад

Y’all need to think about these DNA sites...

@brettking8663 3 года назад

Bro I thought I had thought of everything. Great thought!

@yellowsausage7714 6 лет назад

They took my NUDES!

@cfcreative1 4 года назад

Sadly they had to pay to tell you what big media would not.

@dukeimus 6 лет назад

Am I missing something? Isn't this what every Brand/Agency Paid Media Team been doing? Why does people act like its new and shocking?

@conorChaos_ 6 лет назад

looks like hes wearing blush wtf

@spacewalker8747 6 лет назад

Noam chomsky wrote on this subject matter manufacturing,....

@trumpthetraitor2485 6 лет назад

*Christopher Wylie is a NATIONAL HERO - Give him the MOH*

@TooManyChoices1 6 лет назад

Trump TheTraitor Hero for what !! He basically is saying he was paid for a job. That job was not illegal. Where is the part where he exposed the crime or corruption ? He did no such thing... He didnt even give an example of one of the advertisements !!! You people are really stupid.

@-BlackTalon- Год назад

A willing participant until it was no longer useful then blows the whistle...

@njoroge2061 4 года назад

"Information is power"

@exbladex99 6 лет назад

We need to ask him about whether he was involved in spreading conspiracy theories or whether botnets or Russian trolls may have "went with it" or "picked up the content created by cambridge"

@hanaidres68 6 лет назад

Thanks for your honesty more people of you and the policiation will be more aware that we are not just a number we are humans.

@merlvinc 4 года назад

The Republican party thinks you are just a number!-- Bonnie Robinson

@SurajSinghTomarArya 6 лет назад

As a person in online marketing industry, I can tell you that Facebook's main revenue comes from selling people information to comapnies and political parties. We got so many option like movies, songs, sports team, food, what political parties you like and all of this is of huge value for companies and politicians who will decide then how to scam you this year.

@tsvetelin6556 Год назад

The fact that none of the people involved in this has not suffered any kind of lawful punishment only means that this will keep happening. So it’s up to us to change accordingly although I don’t know the exact answer to how and what we need to change in our day to day life.

@rickgrimesthewise5830 Год назад

You're totally right, since the men in power aren't hold responsible its up to the consumers of media, both printed and social, to enable the ones in power to redo such big scale voter manipulation. I think we need to live life in a slightly critical manner, by questioning media as well as being careful with sharing personal intimate informarion online. In the end all those Facebook users whose data has been utilized to manipulate voters posted all the personal content willingly on the internet for everyone to see. If they hadn't done so, there wouldn't have been anything for Cambridge-Analytica to work with.