What You Need to Know About the Facebook Data "Breach"

by Eli SandersA Facebook data center. According to recent reports, another repository of Facebook data is Cambridge Analytica, a firm that worked for the Trump campaign and managed to buy personal data on 50 million Facebook users. Rainier Ehrhardt / Getty Images
If you missed it over the weekend, The New York Times and The Guardian have published long, must-read stories about how Cambridge Analytica, the Trump campaign's data firm, was involved in a sneaky and perhaps illegal data collection sc