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The Great Hack – Your data is also your human rights
By Singaporean Talks Money  •  August 4, 2019
Over the weekend, I watched a documentary on Netflix called The Great Hack was about how our personal data on the internet can be so easily accessible by companies who make a profit out of those data.

The documentary follows a professor, a few other key characters and depicts mostly on Cambridge Analytica, a company that made use of data from the internet of individuals to influence key events like the US elections 2016 and Leave.Eu Campaign.


For the US elections 2016, they showed how tech giants like Facebook was employed by Trump to planned ads that was very much directed to the individuals especially those in swing states.

So what Cambridge Analytica did as a political consulting firm was that they used surveys like personality test several facebook users, what these user were not aware was that besides getting information of them, it also got access to information of all of their

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By Singaporean Talks Money
I am currently a 23 year old university student in SIM. I hope to be able to grow my money and see the power of compound interest. I became interested in investing when I took a gap year and worked full-time. I realized that by just saving, it was very difficult to achieve my financial goals hence i read up on investing.
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