Author: Rishvik Chandel & Siddhant Patkar

Human & Machine

Are you Safe Enough? A look into Digital Privacy & Security of the near future.

Rishvik Chandel & Siddhant Patkar
February 1, 2021

In 2018, the world was made aware of the fact that an unknown corporation called Cambridge Analytica had harvested over 87 million user profiles from Facebook through a whistleblower in what was dubbed as one of the biggest data breach of the year. This data was then used to create individual psychological profiles to get the voters to vote for the Republican candidate Ted Cruz and then later was used to help elect Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.