Christopher Wylie is a courageous whistleblower, who came forward and exposed his employer, Cambridge Analytica’s data mining practices. He exposed the recent Facebook data breach that has affected over 50 million Facebook users. Plus, many herald him as the first great Millenial whistleblower.

About the Whistleblower Statute

In 1863 to combat fraud in Union contracts during the Civil War, Congress passed the Whistleblower or Qui Tam statute. It was not until 1986 before Congress modernized the Whistleblower statute. Then, Congress renamed it the False Claims Act (FCA). It became the government’s primary tool to combat fraud. Individuals who report government-program fraud bring the lawsuit on behalf of the government.

Facebook Data Breach

A partner organization of Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, violated Facebook’s terms of service in collecting user data on 50 million people and using it for voter profiling.  As the Federal Trade Commission investigates Facebook, questions remain if this is a data breach and what laws the company broke.
The investigation is only possible due to the courageous acts of data analyst for Cambridge Analytica, Christopher Wylie. Wylie submitted a dossier of evidence to the Information Commissioner’s Office and the National Crime Agency’s cybercrime unit. The information details how Cambridge Analytica devised an illegal plan to extract the data from millions of Facebook profiles in the United States. Then, it would use the private and personal information to create sophisticated psychological and political profiles. The organization sold the information in order to target consumers with ads designed to work on their particular psychological makeup.

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