Author: Dan Wardrope
Publisher: Flexxable
Publication Year: N/A
Summary: The following article reviews people’s reactions to The Great Hack on Netflix. The Great Hack exposes the wrong-doing of mass data exploitation during the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In early 2018, it was learned that the analytics giant, Cambridge Analytica, collected millions of people’s data from Facebook accounts without their consent. They then turned to that data to create political advertisements. Brittany Kaiser, an employee of Cambridge Analytica, came forward in as a whistle-blower. The author argues that by doing a Google search you technically are creating data, and companies do have access to that data whether you like it or not. Though, what they do with that data can be legal or illegal, regardless of their intentions. The author says that as much as a human might hopefully do the right thing, algorithms do not know right from wrong. Dan is a digital marketing entrepreneur and CEO of Flexx Digital.
