'Google Health Coach onboarding incorporates explicit consent': I asked Google about its new multi-year partnership with Flo Health, in light of privacy concerns following the companies' $56 million lawsuit settlement
In Google's most recent closed press briefing, in which Google's top brass revealed the new Fitbit Edge fitness tracker to a video call full of international journalists, it also revealed Google was entering into a "multi-year partnership" with an app called Flo.
Flo is a women's health app that can track your period, ovulation windows, and pregnancy stages, and it's widely used across the world.
Google said the new partnership was going to involve creating "personalized experiences for women". This includes building new products, and incorporating Flo into the AI-forward Google Health app.
Google says it's "working hard to sync Google Health with Flo for deeper insights", using trackers such as the Fitbit Air to collect data and Google Health to organize and surface that data, possibly with the AI chatbot Google Health Coach premium service.
During the presentation, Google stated that "Flo has spent more than a decade...
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