Meta Found Guilty of Accessing Flo Health App Data Without Consent
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A jury ruled that Meta accessed sensitive reproductive health data from the Flo Health app without user consent. The app, developed in 2015, tracks detailed women's health information. A class action lawsuit was filed in 2021 following a 2019 Wall Street Journal report on privacy violations.
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Flo Health user Erica Frasco bought a class action lawsuit against the company in 2021, following a damning report about its privacy infractions by the Wall Street Journal in 2019.
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, intimate aspects of women’s reproductive health.
A jury has ruled that Meta accessed sensitive information from women's reproductive health tracking app Flo without consent.
