Ill. County Sues Facebook Over 50M-User Data Collection

By Hannah Meisel (March 26, 2018, 8:22 PM EDT) -- Cook County, Illinois' top prosecutor slapped Facebook and London-based political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica with a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court late Friday over a purported privacy breach in which the firm allegedly obtained 50 million users' private data and allegedly used it to influence the November 2016 presidential election....

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