Quotes by Christopher Wylie

The idea that we should trust the security of our digital spaces to private companies that have no accountability except to themselves is ridiculous.

Cambridge Analytica's tactics contributed to a world where people kind of hate each other, and don't want to talk to each other, don't want to hear each other, don't want to speak to each other.

You will be a far more effective whistleblower if you operate within a legal framework.

I got recruited to join a research team at SCL group which, at the time, was a British military contractor based in London. Most of its clients were various ministries of defense in NATO countries. And what we were looking at is how to use data online to identify people who would be likely targets of different extremist groups.

We have a completely unregulated digital landscape. There is almost no oversight. We are placing blind trust in companies like Facebook to do the honorable and decent thing.

The things that I was building on originally for the defense of our democracies had been completely inverted to really, in my view, attack our democracies.

In politics, the money man is usually the dumbest person in the room.

The thing I think about all the time is, what if I'd taken a job at Deloitte instead? They offered me one. I just think if I'd taken literally any other job, Cambridge Analytica wouldn't exist. You have no idea how much I brood on this.

I got a call from the Lib Dems. They wanted to upgrade their databases and voter targeting. So, I combined working for them with studying for my degree.

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube create algorithms that promote and highlight information. That is an active engineering decision.