Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, March 19, 2018. Today, the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica story summarized.

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Let's get you caught up.

So by this point you've probably heard the news about four hours after posting our

Friday show Facebook made some news now when someone does a Friday 9 p.m. Eastern News dump the hope is that the story will be forgotten by Monday.

Well that didn't happen in this case and instead the story seemed to metastasize over the weekend

only seemed to grow in prominence so instead of being a 24-hour story this has become a

72-hour one and more and though I'm sure you've heard something about this story

I thought what might be useful to do at this point is a summary of where we are now and what we know

On Friday night Facebook announced it was

suspending the political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica from its

platform, banning the company from buying ads or running on its Facebook pages.

Who is Cambridge Analytica?

They're a voter profiling company that has received a $15 million investment from billionaire Republican donor

Robert Mercer, and which at one time was advised by political strategist Steve Bannon, who reportedly came up with the name of the company.

Cambridge Analytica has been hired by various political groups to help do data mining on voting blocks, and it has been credited in some circles not the least by

Cambridge Analytica itself for helping to win the Brexit vote as well as the Trump presidential campaign.

Okay, so from here we need to cut back in time.

In 2015, a Cambridge University professor named Dr. Alexander Kogan created an app to run on

Facebook called This is your Digital Life. It seemed like one of those personality tests

that you see pop up on Facebook all the time.

You know, you agree to let the app access your Facebook data, you answer a bunch of questions,

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