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A California jury has found Meta in violation of state user privacy laws in a class-action suit brought by users of period tracking app, Flo, who alleged that the tech giant collected private menstrual health data without users\u2019 consent and used it for ad-tracking purposes. <\/p>\n
The plaintiffs, claiming to represent millions of Flo users, had accused Flo and Meta of collecting private health data, like their period dates and fertility goals, via Flo\u2019s app without permission, therefore violating California Invasion of Privacy Act. <\/p>\n
Filed in 2021 against Flo, the lawsuit also named Meta, Google, and ad analytics companies AppFlyers and Flurry, as defendants, though Google settled the case in July, and Flo also did so earlier this month.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis verdict sends a clear message about the protection of digital health data and the responsibilities of Big Tech,\u201d said Michael P. Canty and Carol C. Villegas, lead trial attorneys in the case. <\/p>\n
\u201cCompanies like Meta that covertly profit from users\u2019 most intimate information must be held accountable.\u00a0Today\u2019s outcome reinforces the fundamental right to privacy\u2014especially when it comes to sensitive health data,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n
Meta disagreed with the verdict and said that the company never eavesdropped on Flo users.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe vigorously disagree with this outcome and are exploring all legal options. The plaintiffs\u2019 claims against Meta are simply false. User privacy is important to Meta, which is why we do not want health or other sensitive information, and why our terms prohibit developers from sending any,\u201d a company spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<\/span> Last year, Flo raised $200 million in Series C funding from General Atlantic at a valuation of over $1 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A California jury has found Meta in violation of state user privacy laws in a class-action suit brought by users of period tracking app, Flo, who alleged that the tech giant collected private menstrual health data without users\u2019 consent and used it for ad-tracking purposes. The plaintiffs, claiming to represent millions of Flo users, had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[667,7830,1111,2223,37,1846,4098,5722,1086,4493,554,666,1146,7829],"class_list":{"0":"post-14184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-collecting","10":"tag-data","11":"tag-flo","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-jury","14":"tag-laws","15":"tag-menstrual","16":"tag-meta","17":"tag-privacy","18":"tag-quietly","19":"tag-rules","20":"tag-users","21":"tag-violated"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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