Parties in Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation Seek to Relate Case
An additional medical privacy complaint should be added to In Re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation, said a joint administrative motion Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-04821) to consider whether Dianna Williams, et al. v. Meta Platforms should be related to the consolidated Meta…
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Pixel action. The Williams case transferred to U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco Sept. 20, and its claims and allegations against Meta concerning the technology, Meta’s allegedly wrongful conduct and the category of developers that installed Meta Pixel on their websites -- healthcare entities -- overlap with the consolidated action, it said. Williams alleges Meta received sensitive health information through the Meta Pixel tracking tool that’s integrated into the web properties of healthcare providers. Williams plaintiffs, who are Facebook account holders, are part of the consolidated action’s putative class, said the filing. The court in October 2022 granted a motion to consolidate four related cases.