MyFitnessPal Users Advance Lawsuit Over ‘Deceptive’ Web Tracking

MyFitnessPal Inc. failed to convince a federal judge to toss a lawsuit alleging it illegally collected the data of its app users even after they rejected the use of cookies that tracked them while they interacted with the app.

Lead plaintiffs Vishal Shah and Christine Wiley had standing to bring the lawsuit in federal court and adequately pleaded claims of invasion of privacy, intrusion upon seclusion, and unjust enrichment, Judge P. Casey Pitts of the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Tuesday.

The plaintiffs alleged that MyFitnessPal incorporated tracking tools from Meta Platforms Inc., Google ...