Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future.

I'm Will Oremus.

And I'm April Glazer.

Hey, everyone, welcome to If Then.

We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America.

We're recording this on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 3rd.

On today's show, we'll talk about the Facebook privacy scandal that won't go away, that is Cambridge Analytica.

And we'll touch on some new data from our employer Slate that illustrates how Facebook is pulling back from the news business.

Then we'll be joined by our colleague Mark Joseph Stern, who covers courts and the law.

We'll ask him about some recent tech-related Supreme Court cases and how the court stance towards technology and privacy could change with the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy.

And then we'll have Don't Close My Tabs, some of the most interesting stories we found online this week. All right, April, good to be back with you this week. Yeah, it is a nice summer. I'm actually

here in, or it's, I don't know if it's a nice summer, but it's certainly an eventful one. I'm actually recording this time from Washington, D.C., so from the other coast. How are you doing?

I'm here in Santa Barbara, as usual, and we have back in the news a story that we have covered so much on this show. It's

Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal. It dominated tech and political headlines for a few weeks

in March and April. It seemed like it culminated with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg being

called to Washington to testify before Congress for a few days in April. But the scandal's not going away, and it's back in the headlines this week.

April, can you just give us the quick rundown on why we're talking about Cambridge Analytica again?

First off, nothing's really been resolved after the splash of headlines has kind of died down.

And that headline splash did last, you know, a good month it felt like.

But it ended with the fact that the FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, was investigating Facebook for breaking an agreement it had with the agency in 2011 around getting permission from users when sharing data.

And now we've learned that the federal probe into the voter targeting firm that the Trump campaign was using and that the Ted Cruz campaign used as well has been broadened.

The Justice Department, the FBI and the SEC, that's the Securities and Exchange Commission, are all looking into Cambridge Analytica now and Facebook and that relationship there.

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