Meta excoriated by US judge for delays finalizing high-stakes Flo privacy verdict
By Mike Swift ( October 30, 2026, 00:27 GMT | Insight) -- An exasperated federal judge in San Francisco declared Thursday that he's out of patience with delays by Meta Platforms in agreeing to the number of California women who used the Flo Health app and had their sensitive reproductive data wiretapped by Meta, commanding the social media giant and the plaintiffs to spend the week of the Thanksgiving holiday hashing out the number of California women who could receive $5,000 each in wiretapping damages. That would appear to put Meta at risk of paying up to $6 billion in damages.A federal judge warned Meta Platforms Thursday that its resistance is “rotting on the vine” a historic privacy trial verdict, ordering Meta and the plaintiffs to spend the week of Thanksgiving in his jury room until they agree on what could be several billion dollars in wiretapping damages....
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