Meta Calls Class Treatment in Health Data Pixel Suit Improper

Meta Platforms Inc. argued in a hearing Friday that a suit challenging its collection of healthcare data via its tracking pixel would suffers from several issues foreclosing class certification.

The plaintiffs claim that Meta knew it was collecting health data on US patients through its business tools, and that by doing so it violated their reasonable expectations of privacy. “All class members had a reasonable expectation that their providers would not use tracking tools that would share health information paired with” data that connects to their identity, Andre Mura, of Gibbs Mura LLP, argued on their behalf.

But “what the ...