In Re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation

  1. January 29, 2024

    Meta Must Keep Battling Trimmed Health Tracking Privacy Suit

    A California federal judge on Monday refused to throw out a trimmed version of a lawsuit claiming that Meta Platforms Inc. illegally collected patients' health information using a Facebook data tracking tool, ruling that their latest complaint has addressed some of his prior concerns.

  2. January 01, 2024

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Cases To Watch In 2024

    Litigation accusing tech giants, healthcare companies, retailers and other website operators of unlawfully tracking users' activities is expected to continue to occupy the spotlight in 2024, in addition to a constitutional challenge being mounted by Facebook's parent company to the Federal Trade Commission's enforcement authority and an ongoing flood of biometric privacy suits that could be joined by a similar influx of health privacy disputes.

  3. September 08, 2023

    Facebook Health Tracking Privacy Suit Slashed For Now

    A California federal judge on Thursday tossed a handful of key claims, including privacy and unfair competition, from a suit accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of illegally collecting patients' health information via a Facebook data tracking tool, though he gave the patients the opportunity to take another stab at those claims.

  4. August 16, 2023

    Facebook Health Tracking Privacy Suit Faces Serious Cuts

    A San Francisco federal judge on Wednesday tentatively tossed a number of major claims from a lawsuit accusing Meta of violating privacy laws by using a Facebook data tracking tool that collects patients' health information, but spared others and said the case would continue "in some form or fashion."

  5. May 09, 2023

    Meta Says It Can't Be Held Liable For Misuse Of Pixel Tool

    Meta Platforms Inc. urged a California federal court to toss a "grab-bag complaint" accusing the company of using its pixel tool to illicitly collect data from millions of hospital patients, arguing that the Facebook users are pushing the "misguided theory" that Meta should be held liable for health care providers' conduct.

  6. April 18, 2023

    Facebook Users Refute Joint Discovery Bid In Privacy Suit

    A group of Facebook users accusing Meta of using its Pixel tool to collect data from millions of hospital patients says discovery in their case should not be coordinated with other suits targeting the Pixel software, warning a California judge that coordination would catalyze a "quagmire" of delay, confusion and prejudice.

  7. January 02, 2023

    Privacy Litigation To Watch In 2023

    The recent explosion of litigation accusing a wide range of companies of violating wiretap and video privacy laws through the technology they deploy on their websites will continue to proliferate in 2023, joining robocall and biometric privacy disputes that have long plagued businesses and also show no signs of abating.

  8. December 22, 2022

    Facebook Users Denied Injunction In 'Troubling' Privacy Suit

    A California federal judge on Thursday rejected a bid by Facebook users to block Meta Platforms Inc. from collecting confidential patient data through its Pixel tracking tools installed on hospital websites, while calling the allegations against the tech giant "troubling."

  9. November 09, 2022

    Facebook Health Tracking Claim Shocking If True, Judge Says

    A California federal judge considering a motion to block Meta from intercepting or disseminating confidential patient information that Facebook allegedly collects through its Pixel tracking software tool said Wednesday that if the plaintiffs' claims are true, Facebook users "would be shocked."

  10. October 21, 2022

    Facebook Users' Attys Stress Diversity In Interim Counsel Bid

    A group of attorneys asked a California federal court Friday to name them interim class counsel in a proposed data privacy class action against Facebook, highlighting the racial, age and gender diversity of the proposed legal team.