Menstruation cycle tracking app breached users' privacy, B.C. class-action lawsuit alleges

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Menstruation cycle tracking app breached users' privacy, B.C. class-action lawsuit alleges
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VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge says a class-action lawsuit can move forward over alleged privacy breaches against a company that made an app to track users' menstrual and fertility cycles. The ruling published online Friday says the action against Flo Health Inc. alleges the company shared users' highly personal health information with third-parties, including Facebook, Google and other companies.

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So what are they doing that illegal that other apps aren’t doing??

I really don’t know how to be any more clear with this question.

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The lawsuit alleges that Flo Health misused users’ personal information “for its own financial gain,” claiming breach of privacy, breach of confidence and “intrusion upon seclusion.”

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