Flower artworks are pictured made by Fleurs de Villes marking Yaletown Pride in Vancouver on July 27, 2022.
A Canadian class-action lawsuit accusing a popular fertility-tracking app of sending users’ intimate health information — including details about their periods, sex lives and pregnancies — to companies like Facebook without their knowledge has been allowed to go ahead.A woman is pictured in Vancouver on July 27, 2022. A class-action lawsuit based in B.C.
Flo is an app that tracks users' fertility and periods. Users enter personal information about their height, weight, sex lives and reproductive cycles — including details about their periods, vaginal discharge, pregnancies, miscarriages, births and postpartum symptoms. Lam declined an interview request. In her affadavit, she said she was "shocked to learn that Flo Health had disclosed my personal information to Facebook and others, despite my clear understanding when I downloaded the Flo App that my information would be kept private."
In greenlighting the Canadian class action on Thursday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Lauren Blake said the class would include all Canadian residents, excluding those in Quebec, who used the Flo app between June 1, 2016 and Feb. 23, 2019.
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