I asked Google about its new multi-year partnership with Flo Health, in light of privacy concerns
THE SO WHAT
Google’s partnership with Flo Health — and its emphasis that algorithms won’t log or store sensitive women’s health events — shows how reproductive data has become a reputational and regulatory tripwire. Any health or wellness product training or deploying AI on user data needs explicit consent flows and auditable data minimization, not just a privacy policy update.
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