Christopher Wylie Talks About Life After Whistle-Blowing Facebook’s Data Scandal — Transcript

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1. 0:06particularly after the brexit stories
2. 0:11broke which in Britain is a highly
3. 0:14politically charged issue that's where
4. 0:17the implicated parties that I was I was
5. 0:20whistle blowing on weren't just you know
6. 0:22this abstract tech company in Silicon
7. 0:23Valley that everybody could kind of
8. 0:25bandy around go yeah these guys are you
9. 0:27know need they need to change all the
10. 0:29sudden it was the Prime Minister's
11. 0:32office the government ministers and more
12. 0:36broadly the entire Pro leaf campaign
13. 0:41which I think prompted a lot of fairly
14. 0:46good triolic reaction so since since
15. 0:51those sets of stories have come out I've
16. 0:54been physically assaulted several times
17. 0:56in the street somebody wants to push me
18. 0:58into traffic I've been followed into gay
19. 1:01clubs for example where alt-right blogs
20. 1:04would send photographers so you take
21. 1:05pictures of me and people that I was
22. 1:07with to then post on all right blogs and
23. 1:10forums the next day so that that has
24. 1:13being you know not necessarily the
25. 1:19easiest to deal with but again like
26. 1:22anything you start to actually just get
27. 1:24used to it so what made me decide to go
28. 1:26public I think with me there was no
29. 1:29single moment that prompted me to decide
30. 1:32to go public it was a process so it
31. 1:36started first working with the Guardian
32. 1:38as an anonymous source at least to get
33. 1:42some of the information out there in the
34. 1:44public it also started with me working
35. 1:47with some of the law enforcement
36. 1:49agencies in the UK you know months
37. 1:52before the stories actually came out so
38. 1:55that a proper investigation
39. 1:59the subject matter would you know be
40. 2:02underway by the time it reached the
41. 2:04public the the thing that I suppose
42. 2:07prompted me to come forward was the
43. 2:10exceptional situation that I was in
44. 2:12where I actually had quite a bit of
45. 2:14support most people don't have that and
46. 2:16I think that's why we we don't see a lot
47. 2:18of people coming forwards how is my life
48. 2:19changed well it's gotten a lot busier I
49. 2:22was very much a private person you've
50. 2:26never done any kind of media anything
51. 2:29before I had avoided any kind of public
52. 2:31attention any kind of media once the
53. 2:34story came out and sort of blew up in
54. 2:37the way that it did I had to sort of let
55. 2:40go of that that old habit and embrace
56. 2:45the fact that people want to talk about
57. 2:46it and talk to me about it you know the
58. 2:48reaction for me is heartwarming because
59. 2:51what it shows is that people do care
60. 2:53about the issues but I did want to raise
61. 2:56and that because people care about it
62. 2:59lawmakers are now starting to pay
63. 3:00attention to it and also not just
64. 3:02lawmakers but the tech sector in general
65. 3:04which I think actually more changes will
66. 3:06happen internally from from the tech
67. 3:10sector or more rapid Chino's rather so I
68. 3:12find that a heartwarming but how is my
69. 3:15life change it's just gotten a lot
70. 3:16busier
71. 3:28you