Christopher Wylie

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Person.png Christopher WylieRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(whistleblower)
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Born19 June 1989
Alma materLondon School of Economics, George Washington University
Interest ofCarole Cadwalladr

Christopher Wylie (born 19 June 1989) is a Canadian data consultant and whistleblower who previously worked at Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm led by Alexander Nix. On 27 March 2018, Wylie told a House of Commons select committee that Palantir, a secretive company co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, had worked with Cambridge Analytica:

“That was not an official contract between Palantir and Cambridge Analytica, but there were Palantir staff that would come into the office and work on that data, and helped build the models we were working on.”[1]

Early in 2018, Christopher Wylie released a cache of documents prompting the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal,[2] giving The Guardian documents that described the secret workings behind Cambridge Analytica.[3] The documents were centered around Cambridge Analytica's alleged unauthorised possession of personal private data from up to 87 million Facebook user accounts,[4] 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.[5][6] He appeared in the 2019 documentary The Great Hack.

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