Meta Privacy Defeat May Embolden Plaintiffs

Meta’s recent loss in a landmark privacy case helps justify a legal strategy that plaintiff’s attorneys have wielded against Big Tech companies for years, Isaiah Poritz reports.

A federal jury held last month that Meta illegally collected the menstrual health data of women who used the period tracking app Flo, leaving it on the hook to pay potentially billions of dollars in damages. The first-of-its-kind verdict sided with plaintiffs who claimed Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, a 1967 law that was originally enacted to protect consumers from unauthorized recordings of phone calls.

Plaintiffs argued that Meta’s software ...