The Great Hack

Name: The Great Hack
Director: Karim Amer
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-01-26
Rating: 6.873

They took your data. Then they took control.

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Director: Karim Amer
Language: English
Released: 2019-01-26
Runtime: 1h 54m

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Data—arguably the world’s most valuable asset—is being weaponized to wage cultural and political wars. The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable, personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.

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Cast

Brittany KaiserSelf - Former Dir. of Business Development, Cambridge Analytica
David CarrollSelf - Associate Professor Parsons School of Design
Paul-Olivier DehayeSelf - Founder @PersonalDataIO
Ravi NaikSelf - Data Rights Solicitor
Julian Wheatland — artwork unavailable
Julian WheatlandSelf - Former COO/CFO Cambridge Analytica/SCL
Carole Cadwalladr — artwork unavailable
Carole CadwalladrSelf - Investigative Journalist for The Guardian
Christopher Wiley — artwork unavailable
Christopher WileySelf - Former Cambridge Analytica Employee and Whistleblower
Paul Hilder — artwork unavailable
Paul HilderSelf - Writer/Political Technologist
Emma Graham-Harrison — artwork unavailable
Emma Graham-HarrisonSelf - International Affairs Correspondent, The Observer
Gill Phillips — artwork unavailable
Gill PhillipsSelf - Legal Council, The Guardian