Meta Illegally Recorded Women’s Menstrual Data, Jury Finds (2)

Meta Platforms Inc. violated California privacy law by secretly recording the sensitive menstrual health data of millions of women who used the popular period tracking app Flo, a jury decided Friday in the first major privacy verdict against a Big Tech company.

The eight-person federal jury in San Francisco determined that Meta collected the private data through a chunk of code known as a software development kit that was embedded on the Flo app and recorded users’ answers to questions about whether they wanted to get pregnant and the date of their last period.

The jury, composed of five women ...