Quest Diagnostics Beats Class Appeal Over Info Sharing With Meta

Quest Diagnostics Inc. convinced a federal appeals court Thursday not to revive a class action that alleged the clinical laboratory improperly shared patients’ data with Meta Platforms Inc.

The Facebook tracking pixel deployed on Quest’s website isn’t eavesdropping prohibited by the California Invasion of Privacy Act, Judge Patty Shwartz wrote for the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in an unpublished opinion.

Meta received direct communications from the plaintiffs, so Quest didn’t need to aid the social media company to intercept them, the court said. The ruling affirms the lower court judge, who had previously ruled for the ...