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Google, Flo privacy settlement 'seems fine'; US judge pushes Meta on class size

By Mike Swift ( December 5, 2025, 01:11 GMT | Insight) -- A federal judge in San Francisco said the settlement proposal by Google and Flo Health to pay a collective $56 million to settle allegations over Flo's sharing of women's reproductive health data with Google and Meta Platforms "seems fine." But US District Judge James Donato signaled that he will push both plaintiffs and defendants hard to identify as many class members as possible in California and across the United States — an effort that will determine whether Meta Platforms must pay as much as $8 billion in damages following the verdict in the historic first Big Tech class-action privacy case to be tried by a jury.A proposal by Google and Flo Health to pay a combined $56 million to settle out of historic litigation over Flo’s sharing of the intimate reproductive data of more than 12 million women with a trio of digital ads giants “seems fine,” a federal judge said Thursday....

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