Christopher Wylie
Data consultant and whistleblower
Christopher Wylie is a data consultant who helped set up Cambridge Analytica and later exposed its misuse of data. He is the author of Mindf*ck.
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Canadian Born 1989 in Victoria, Canada
About Christopher Wylie
Christopher Wylie was born in British Columbia, Canada, and studied law at the London School of Economics. He then moved into cultural data science and fashion trend forecasting. While working at Cambridge Analytica, he obtained documents and gave them to The Guardian. This led to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal and to several government investigations. Time magazine placed him on its 2018 list of the world's most influential people. He also appeared in the 2019 documentary The Great Hack.