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The defunct analytics company Flurry agreed to pay $3.5 million to resolve a class action lawsuit claiming it improperly harvested data from a widely used period tracking app. Data obtained included whether users masturbate, how often they have sex, if sex is painful therecord.media/flurry-pays-...

Mar 25, 2025, 7:23 PM

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