Parties Ask to Relate University of Chicago Case to Meta Healthcare Litigation
The parties in the Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation asked the court to relate Hartley v. Meta Platforms to the consolidated class action, said a Tuesday joint administrative motion (docket 3:22-cv-03580) to consider relating cases in U.S. District Court for Northern…
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California in San Francisco. Plaintiffs in the consolidated action allege Meta used its business tools, including the Meta Pixel, “to intercept individually identifiable health information” from partner web properties. Similarly, plaintiff Hartley alleges the University of Chicago Medical Center “collects and shares the personally identifiable information and PHI of patients using a ‘Facebook Pixel,’” which the medical center installed on its web properties, said the motion. The consolidated action and Hartley “concern substantially the same parties, property, transaction, or event,” Meta’s alleged receipt of users’ health information via the Meta Pixel.