Jan. 15, 2021
Kat Grilli started using Flo — a popular period- and pregnancy-tracking app — a year ago, when she began her IVF journey to get pregnant with her husband, who is transgender. She logged onto the app to track her periods so she would know when to start IVF drugs, she said, adding that she also responded to prompts about her sexual activity, hunger and exercise.
Now nine months into her pregnancy, Grilli, 33, is one of more than a half-dozen women who told The Lily they are permanently deleting the app after the Federal Trade Commission announced on Wednesday that it filed a complaint against Flo, alleging that it shared millions of users’ data about their menstruation, fertility and pregnancies with the analytics and marketing teams of third-party companies including Google and Facebook — all the while, promising users their data would be kept private.