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Google, Flo Health to pay $56 million in period-tracking app privacy case
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on September 25, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on September 25, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Google and Flo Health settle a $56 million privacy lawsuit over period-tracking app data, with Meta Platforms found liable and planning to appeal.
By Jonathan Stempel
(Reuters) -Google and app developer Flo Health will pay $56 million to settle a class action claiming they violated the privacy of millions of Flo app users by collecting information about their menstrual health cycles and using it for targeted advertising.
Settlement terms were disclosed late Tuesday in San Francisco federal court, and require approval by U.S. District Judge James Donato.
Google, a unit of Alphabet, would pay $48 million, while Flo would pay $8 million. Flurry, a now-defunct mobile analytics company, settled for $3.5 million in March.
A fourth defendant, Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms, did not settle, and was found liable by a jury on August 4 after a two-week trial.
Meta is expected to appeal the verdict. A hearing to consider damages is scheduled for September 30. Google settled two weeks before the trial began, and Flo settled shortly before the trial ended. Both denied wrongdoing.
Flo app users alleged that between November 2016 and February 2019 Flo shared personal information related to their menstrual periods and pregnancies with the other defendants, despite promising to keep it confidential.
They said this violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, which carries statutory penalties of $5,000 per violation, theoretically justifying billions of dollars in damages.
Google said in a statement on Thursday that no data were used for ads, and customers are prohibited from using Google Analytics to collect health information protected under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
Meta declined to comment. Flo and lawyers for the plaintiffs did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The case is Frasco et al v Flo Health Inc et al, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 21-00757.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Marguerita Choy and Mark Porter)
Google and Flo Health will pay a total of $56 million to settle the privacy case, with Google contributing $48 million and Flo Health $8 million.
Flo app users alleged that between November 2016 and February 2019, the app shared personal information related to menstrual periods and pregnancies without user consent.
The plaintiffs claimed that the actions of Flo Health and Google violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, which carries statutory penalties of $5,000 per violation.
Google stated that no data from the Flo app were used for advertisements and that customers are prohibited from using Google Analytics to collect health information protected under federal law.
Meta Platforms did not settle and was found liable by a jury on August 4, with a hearing to consider damages scheduled for September 30.
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