Christopher Wylie was born on 19 June 1989 and is a Canadian data consultant.
19 Facts About Christopher Wylie
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Christopher Wylie is noted as the whistleblower who released a cache of documents to The Guardian he obtained while he worked at Cambridge Analytica.
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Christopher Wylie appeared in the 2019 documentary The Great Hack.
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Christopher Wylie was born to parents Kevin Christopher Wylie and Joan Carruthers, both physicians.
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Christopher Wylie left school in 2005 at the age of 16 without a qualification, and when asked about his "probable destiny" on his school leaver's yearbook page, he stated "just another dissociative smear merchant peddling backroom hackery in its purest Machiavellian form".
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Christopher Wylie has a PhD in predicting fashions trends from the University of the Arts London.
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In 2012, Christopher Wylie worked for the Liberal Democrats in the UK on voter targeting.
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In 2013, Christopher Wylie discovered some research on psychological profiling using social data funded by DARPA and used that knowledge when he began working for SCL Elections, formerly Strategic Communication Laboratories, and its offshoot for American elections, an international consultancy specialising in data-driven psychographic targeting in elections.
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Christopher Wylie said that traditional analytics around voter profiling used voting records and purchase histories to predict voter behavior, but that it was useless for learning if a voter was "a neurotic introvert, a religious extrovert, a fair-minded liberal or a fan of the occult," which were among the traits Wylie and his team determined were uniquely susceptible to political messaging.
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Christopher Wylie worked for American Republican candidates affiliated with the party's "Tea Party" wing in the 2014 United States elections; and on disinformation campaigns for political parties in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and the Caribbean.
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In describing his ambitions for developing Eunoia, Christopher Wylie stated "I want to build the NSA's wet dream".
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In December 2014, Christopher Wylie registered Eunoia Technologies Inc in the tax haven of Delaware.
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Christopher Wylie has repeatedly denied having had any involvement in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union referendum, describing himself as "A Eurosceptic, but I wouldn't call myself a Brexiteer", and pointing to his having been abroad at the time of the referendum.
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In March 2018, Christopher Wylie released a cache of documents to The Guardian centered around Cambridge Analytica's alleged unauthorized possession of personal private data from up to 87 million Facebook user accounts, which was obtained for the purpose of creating targeted digital advertising campaigns.
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The campaigns were based on psychological and personality profiles mined from the Facebook data which Christopher Wylie had commissioned in a mass-data scraping exercise.
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Christopher Wylie subsequently provided testimony and materials to a range of inquiries and legislatures around the world, and his revelations were instrumental in the May 2018 collapse of Cambridge Analytica.
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Christopher Wylie admitted to having been the principal anonymous source for a May 2017 The Observer article by Carole Cadwalladr, which first drew attention to Cambridge Analytica.
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On March 27,2018, Christopher Wylie provided evidence to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK Parliament that contained further revelations about the practices at Cambridge Analytica and its associated companies.
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Christopher Wylie said that as a result of his whistleblowing, Facebook suspended his account, along with his accounts on the platforms its subsidiaries, Instagram and WhatsApp, although Whatsapp denied that any action was taken on Christopher Wylie's account.