The takeaway for mainstream audiences of the new Netflix documentary "The Great Hack" about the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal is that data corrupts and privacy information can be used as warfare, Vice reports. However, Motherboard Senior Editor Janus Rose believes the film fails to capture the bigger picture. She writes, "The real 'great hack' isn’t Cambridge’s ill-gotten data or Facebook’s failure to protect it. It’s the entire business model of Silicon Valley, which has incentivized the use of personal data to manipulate human behavior." TechCrunch Senior Reporter Natasha Lomas writes that while the movie "does an impressive job of articulating for a mainstream audience the risks for individuals and society of unregulated surveillance capitalism," the viewer is still left with unanswered questions.
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