Chris Wylie

• Canadian Facebook whistleblower says he didn’t do any voter-targeting work for Liberals

  Testifying before a parliamentary committee, Chris Wylie says his work for the bureau had nothing to do with the micro-targeting and psychoanalysis of voters.

  Canada

  May 29, 2018
  
• Twitter is changing its privacy policy; here’s how to opt out of what it shares on you

  Twitter is changing its privacy policy and will let users opt out of letting the social media platform share their data with its business partners ahead of major new rules set to come into effect next month in Europe.

  Apr 25, 2018
  
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• Cambridge Analytica’s Chris Wylie could appear before Canadian committee by end of month

  Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Chris Wylie will appear before a Canadian parliamentary committee and while no date has been set, Global News has learned that appearance could come within the month. 

  Canada

  Apr 17, 2018
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• UK probing AggregateIQ as part of inquiry into privacy law breach

  Britain's information commissioner is looking at the work of Victoria-based political data firm AggregateIQ as part of an investigation into whether British digital privacy laws were broken during the Brexit referendum campaign,

  Politics

  Apr 5, 2018
• Manipulations behind Brexit, Trump victory could ‘certainly’ happen in Canada: historian

  British historian and political commentator Naill Ferguson explains how the core of Facebook’s business remains in targeted advertising and how Canada could be a target for online political interference.

  Canada

  Apr 1, 2018
• Alex Pierson: Social media played a huge role in electing Justin Trudeau

  Chris Wylie, the pink haired data whiz whose mining skills are said to have helped Donald Trump win the White House, was hired, then fired, by the Trudeau Liberals in 2016.

  Mar 23, 2018