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📽️ Documentary Review: The Great Hack --- Step 1: Details of the Documentary Title: The Great Hack Intended Audience: Students, young adults, technology users, and anyone interested in data privacy, social media, and politics. --- Step 2: Purpose of the Documentary The purpose of the documentary is to show how personal data is collected, used, and misused by companies. The director wants to highlight how Cambridge Analytica used millions of people’s Facebook data to influence political events like the US Elections and Brexit. The main message is that data has become a new form of power, and people need to understand how their online information is being used. --- Step 3: Prior Knowledge of the Subject Before watching, I only knew that Facebook had a big data scandal. I expected to see how social media collects our information. I had questions like: How was so much data taken without permission? Can our online behaviour be used to control our decisions? --- Step 4: Summary of the Docum...