Google, Flo App Data Privacy Settlement Sees Likely Approval

Google LLC and Flo Health Inc.'s multi-million dollar data privacy settlements with users of the popular menstrual tracking app will likely get initial approval by a California federal court.

Judge James Donato at a hearing Thursday said he was fine with the overall settlement plans, which amount to a $48 million payout from Google and an $8 million payout from Flo to be distributed to around 12 million Flo users across the nation.

But the judge said he wouldn’t give preliminary approval to the plans until the parties work on alerting more class members about their settlement payouts. The class ...