#089 - Professor David Carroll - Netflix's The Great Hack: Behind The Screens

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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David Carroll is an associate professor at Parsons School of Design. The Great Hack is one of my favourite documentaries of 2019 and today we get a fascinating and unique insight into the story behind Cambridge Analytica from one of the key figures in this controversy. Extra Stuff: Follow Professor Carroll on Twitter - https://twitter.com/profcarroll Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome back to the Modern Wisdom podcast. My guest today is Professor David Carroll
0:05.8	He is an associate professor of media design at Parsons School of Design, but he is
0:12.6	slightly better known right now for being the man who took on Cambridge Analytica. If you've seen the great hack on Netflix
0:21.8	You will know exactly what I'm talking about and if you haven't I highly recommend that you go and watch it
0:26.8	It's definitely one of my favorite documentaries of 2019
0:31.3	Today we are going behind the screens. We're going to find out a lot of information that was cut from the original documentary
0:37.8	We're going to hear what David's life is like now that this is totally blown up
0:42.0	Here's predictions for Facebook moving forward. What's happening with Cambridge Analytica?
0:47.0	If he's actually got his data yet and an awful lot more consider this the directors cut extra DVD super special edition
0:55.5	Don't know of a Skype
0:57.2	Please welcome professor David Carroll at PS share this episode with some friends a lot of people don't actually know the dangers to do with data privacy
1:06.9	Right now and as David says data rights are akin to human rights
1:11.8	Also feel free to share it on Facebook as a big middle finger to Mark Zuckerberg
1:24.9	I'm joined by professor David Carroll professor welcome the show
1:36.9	It's great to be on here. Thanks for having me
1:39.4	What is your life like at the moment?
1:43.8	It's pretty overwhelming the response to the film
1:49.0	Is mind blowing mostly because I get so many messages per minute
1:53.8	From people around the world saying that their mind is blown
1:57.4	So this sort of mutual mind blowing is happening right now and
2:02.2	It's overwhelming. I I never expected it to go this big
2:07.8	So I mean you were in the press during the first iteration like the real-time
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