Jury Rules Meta Violated Privacy Laws by Eavesdropping on Period-Tracker App Users
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A San Francisco jury ruled that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act by eavesdropping on users of the period-tracking app Flo. The case, filed in 2021 by eight women, targeted Meta (formerly Facebook) and other tech companies. While plaintiffs hailed the verdict as a landmark victory, Meta disputed the jury's decision.
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· 3 pulledMeta lost a major privacy trial on Friday, with a jury in San Francisco ruling that the Menlo Park giant had eavesdropped on the users of the popular period-tracking app Flo.
The plaintiff’s lawyers who sued Meta are calling this a 'landmark' victory — the tech company contends that the jury got it all wrong.
The case goes back to 2021, when eight women sued Flo and a group of other tech companies, including Google and Facebook, now known as Meta.
Meta, the Bay Area tech giant behind Facebook and Instagram, was ruled by a jury to have violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act.
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