Google and Flo to pay $56 million after misusing users’ health data

Popular period-tracking app Flo Health shared users’ intimate health data—such as menstrual cycles and fertility information—with Google and Meta, allegedly for targeted advertising purposes, according to multiple class-action lawsuits filed in the US and Canada. Between 2016 and 2019, the...

Meta accessed women’s health data from Flo app without consent, says court

A jury has ruled that Meta accessed sensitive information from a woman's reproductive health tracking app without consent. The app in question is called Flo Health. Developed in 2015 in Belarus to track menstrual cycles, it has evolved over the years as a tracking app for highly detailed, intimat...