"Nothing is private", the Netflix documentary that will put you uncomfortable on social networks

The first thing that happens when you finish watching Nothing is private (or The big hack, its original title) is that you want to enter Facebook.

And to all the social networks where you gave "Accept Terms and Conditions" without even reading what you allow.

The punctual research conducted by this piece – owned by Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim and recently published on Netflix – works as a late warning signal, a cicada that we can not hear in time.

In 2018, Facebook acknowledged the leak of millions of user data. The news has been added to the many daily news that tells us of distant realities that do not seem to affect us, but the documentary contains an explanation supported by data and testimonies that highlight the true implications of this "escape", which does not configures no less than a global situation state that inevitably turns to conflict.

Behind the scandal lies (or was) the company Cambrigde Analytica, which used private information to manipulate the elections of some countries and thus move the needle of the results.

It is a marvel to understand that, according to the documentary, this is how Trump managed to badume the presidency of the United States. And our skin bristles even more when we find that the company was at the origin of the results of the Brexit dichotomy or not Brexit in England.

Or that his power was in the service of the election campaigns of many countries with polarized wills, like Argentina in 2015.

Journalism course

In just over two hours during which an invisible pot is discovered, several people parade to highlight the stinging stew.

Journalist and researcher Carole Cadwalladr, who works for the British newspaper The Guardian, and that in the manner of a Watergate aggiornado – and much more technological – dedicated his life and work to unveiling a modern and cruel scam with disastrous consequences for the citizens of the world.

As tested with hidden cameras and repentant testimonials, the Cambrigde Analytica consultant (Alexander Nix in the lead) was the black hand behind the false news, the viral and cruel memes and the manipulated information that bombed millions of people. users from different geographic regions to achieve one goal: divide and conquer; create an irreconcilable crack; to twist the will of the people by stroking it against the ropes of false choice.

In Trinidad and Tobago, they discouraged young people from voting and favored a particular party. Hillary Clinton has been thrown with everything until she installs a negative slogan that still can not be removed.

In short, the company had an average of 70,000 vulnerabilities of each individual, which allowed him to touch the buttons needed to manipulate certain behaviors.

Many repentants

Cambridge Analytica lowered the blind and dismantled cabinet in May 2018. And the main thread of the documentary begins with the reflections of American teacher David Carroll – a kind of Neo who wants to unplug the matrix – which gave legal battle to the company "returned" (or deleted) your personal data.

The data claimed by Carroll is neither more nor less than what we provide from our personal accounts (not only about us, but also about the contacts we have in each social network, with hairs and signals ): our private messages; our tastes and trends; that we do not make public by modesty or by reservation.

His trial experience is mixed up with the testimony of Brittany Kaiser, a young man who started as a trainee in Barack Obama's campaign and who, after a break in his value system, ended up playing a fundamental role in the fight against corruption. election that he crowned. the presidency in Trump and regrets today.

Reasons to see it

With little spectacular and a lot of data, Nothing is private It's a careful and neat way to ask a question in front of our noses.

How do we take care of our online privacy? What will be the scenario in which our children will grow up? How does the world change in the face of whims we do not know?

Big data, manipulation of wills, rise of right-wing governments, rain of false news, intimacy in the hands of consultants who treat us in a few clicks, barbarity, lack of scruples, innocence and danger, are some of the nuances that make up the world. general image of Nothing is private.

A documentary that sets off a distant alarm to warn us that the innocent thrill of a distant butterfly – today more than ever – generates a tornado at the door of the house.