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Jury says Meta violated California wiretapping law in first Big Tech privacy trial

By Mike Swift and Maria Dinzeo ( August 1, 2025, 23:59 GMT | Comment) -- A federal jury in San Francisco ruled that Meta Platforms violated California wiretapping law by intentionally receiving sensitive menstrual and reproductive data from the Flo Health app via its software development kit. The unanimous verdict, reached in just three hours, marks the first Big Tech privacy trial decided by a jury and challenges the industry’s use of SDKs for data collection. The decision could spur further legal actions against tech companies and prompt lawmakers to reform the 1960s-vintage California Invasion of Privacy Act.Today’s historic privacy ruling by a federal jury that Meta Platforms’ reception of data from a women’s period-tracking app violated a California wiretapping law threatens to disrupt a key element of the commercial Internet — in addition to being costly for Meta....

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