The Great Hack

The Great Hack

NAME OF FILM: THE GREAT HACK

DIRECTOR(S): Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim

STARRING: Carole Cadwalladr, David Carroll, Brittany Kaiser

GENRE: Documentary Film

SYNOPSIS: If you’ve ever received a perfectly-timed targeted ad and thought your phone must be listening in on you, run, don’t walk, to this movie. There is a worldwide battle for information about you, and the only way to arm yourself is through knowledge, which is what this revealing and often terrifying data mining documentary delivers in spades. Starting with the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal, Oscar-nominated filmmakers Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim (The Square) dive deep into the hows and whys of corporations amassing mountains of personal data from people around the world.