The Great Hack – movie reflection

This is the second time I watch this movie and I would like to say it is just as interesting the second time as it was the first time. It is truly remarkable how a company is able to “mine” data from millions of people and was able to alter and influence their behaviour during the elections. The eery part is that application users who do not read the terms and conditions of these applications are the most vulnerable because they are the ones in which their data is being collected and used against them. Not only so, it just shows how powerful technology companies can be if they are left unregulated and how the most valuable asset in the world is data and information about people. Moreover, it is truly outstanding how these applications are able to make its users subconsciously submit their own data at their own will and not know what is being done with it by the companies because they are completely oblivious of what is being done with the data. Furthermore, the documentary comes to show how the rich pursue only their self-interest with complete disregard of others people safety and wellbeing and how companies are trying to increase their profits by any means necessary. In addition, it is scary how a company such as Cambridge Analytica is able to use something so harmless and be able to change a nations pathway as they did in America and Trinidad and Tobago. Nonetheless, the documentary uncovers how important data privacy and security is in this day and age. It also raises questions about what are these companies such as Facebook and google are doing to protect our data? What are the ethical policies and procedures that are implemented to prevent something like this from happening? Also, what policies are being passed in order to regulate big technology companies and prevent them from selling users data? In the end, it is good that people had risked their lives in order to bring down a company that was on its way to becoming a tech goliath that would have been impossible to stand in front and confront them later on from how big and how powerful they would have been.