Meta Caught Snooping in Popular Period Tracker

Meta Caught Snooping in Popular Period Tracker

Facebook’s data empire just got creepier. On August 4, a jury in California ruled that Meta violated the state’s wiretap law by “intentionally eavesdrop[ing]” on Flo users’ private menstrual health data without their consent and using that data for targeted advertising.  Flo, a London-based app, is used by over 420 million people around the world to track periods, ovulation, and pregnancies. According to the trial brief, the data collected from …