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Meta moves to overturn US jury verdict, de-certify class after Flo privacy trial loss

( August 12, 2025, 16:04 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Meta Platforms asked a federal judge in San Francisco to overturn a jury's Aug. 1 verdict that the social media and digital ads company violated California's wiretapping law by collecting the personal data of women who used the Flo Health period-tracking app. "Whether Flo’s decision to create and send certain data to Meta is actionable under other laws, it is not 'eavesdropping' or 'recording'—and certainly not by Meta," the company told US District Judge James Donato, quoting the California Invasion of Privacy Act. Meta also asked Donato to de-certify the class, saying "key liability and damages issues cannot be resolved on a classwide basis."See attached documents....

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