Jury rules Meta violated California privacy laws by quietly collecting Flo users’ menstrual health data

A California jury Found Meta, who complained that the Tech giant had collected personal monthly health data without the consent of users and used it for advertising-tracking in a class-action suite in a class-action suit brought by users of the Period Tracking App.

The plaintiffs, who claimed to represent millions of FLO users, complained to collect private health information such as their period dates and fertility goals, through the floor app without permission, so California violates the attack on the privacy law.

Filed against the floor in 2021, the case is named after Meta, Google and AD Analytics companies’ Appflare and Fluor, though Google Settlement of the case in JulyAnd the flow of Did so early this monthThe

“This verdict sends a clear message about the responsibility of digital health information and the responsibility of the Big Tech,” Michael P. Canty and Carol C. Villgas, led the trial attorns in this case.

“Companies like Meta that must be held accountable to get secretly gained from the most intimate information of users. Today’s result strengthens the basic rights of privacy – especially when sensitive health data comes,” they add.

The Meta did not agree with the verdict and said the company had never been audible on FLO users.

“We are not strongly agreed with these results and exploring all legal options. The plaintiffs are just false. The privacy of the user is important for meter, which is why we do not want health or other sensitive information, and why our conditions forbid any of the developers to send,” a company’s spokesman said in a statement.

Last year, the flow grown $ 200 million in Series C Funding from General Atlantic In the evaluation of more than $ 1 billion.