Plaintiff’s Opposition Due Aug. 14 to Qualtrics, Microsoft Motions to Dismiss
Plaintiff Jane Doe’s opposition is due Aug. 14 to the separate motions of defendants Microsoft and Qualtrics to dismiss her healthcare privacy class action, said an order signed Tuesday (docket 2:23-cv-00718) by U.S. District Judge John Coughenour for Western Washington…
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in Seattle. The defendants’ reply is due Sept. 11, said the order. Doe’s May 15 complaint alleges Microsoft and Qualtrics “repeatedly and systematically” violated patients’ healthcare privacy rights on the Kaiser Permanente website by intercepting and collecting their personal data (see 2305160051). Qualtrics “is just a vendor” that sells “tools” to customers like Kaiser, allowing those customers to collect and analyze “their own website data from their own website," but Qualtrics “does nothing with this data for itself,” said its July 10 motion to dismiss (see 2307120024). Microsoft’s July 13 motion to dismiss said Doe was on notice that Kaiser used third-party software to collect certain website information, and that there was nothing “nefarious” about the tracking technology the website used (see 2307140013).