{"id":234501,"date":"2026-04-22T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/google-flo-apps-56-million-privacy-settlement-gets-early-nod\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:05:07","slug":"google-flo-apps-56-million-privacy-settlement-gets-early-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/google-flo-apps-56-million-privacy-settlement-gets-early-nod\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Flo App\u2019s $56 Million Privacy Settlement Gets Early Nod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/ip-law\/google-flo-apps-56-million-privacy-settlement-gets-early-nod\">Google, Flo App\u2019s $56 Million Privacy Settlement Gets Early Nod<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/ip-law\/google-flo-apps-56-million-privacy-settlement-gets-early-nod\">https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/ip-law\/google-flo-apps-56-million-privacy-settlement-gets-early-nod<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-22 18:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.bloomberglaw.com\">news.bloomberglaw.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google LLC and the popular menstrual tracking app Flo Health Inc. received preliminary sign-off Wednesday on their combined $56 million settlements in a data privacy class action over the tracking of personal health data.<\/p>\n<p>Judge James Donato of the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco said Google\u2019s $48 million and Flo\u2019s $8 million settlement agreements appeared \u201cfair, reasonable, and adequate\u201d for the roughly 12 million class members who used the Flo app. <\/p>\n<p>Donato set a final approval hearing for the settlement on Oct. 29. <\/p>\n<p>The two agreements resolve claims from Flo users who allege &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/ip-law\/google-flo-apps-56-million-privacy-settlement-gets-early-nod\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google, Flo App\u2019s $56 Million Privacy Settlement Gets Early Nod https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/ip-law\/google-flo-apps-56-million-privacy-settlement-gets-early-nod Publish Date: 2026-04-22 18:49:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bwrite-static.bloombergindustry.com\/dims4\/default\/16946d2\/2147483647\/crop\/5661x2182+0+419\/resize\/960x370%3E\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbloomberg-bna-brightspot.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2F95%2F52%2Ff05bdca74c938d5456c86824ed94%2Fgettyimages-2259952833.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-234501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy","tag-tracking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234503,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234501\/revisions\/234503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}