Chick-Fil-A Faces Suit Over Website Data Sharing with Facebook

Chick-Fil-A Inc. illegally shares user data with Facebook concerning visitors to a video website the restaurant chain maintains, a potential federal class action said.

Keith Carroll alleged that Chick-Fil-A sends visitors’ information to Facebook, now known as Meta Platforms Inc., without their consent.

The information allows the social-media platform to identify the video-watching behavior of visitors to Chick-Fil-A’s “Stories of Evergreen Hills” website, and to use that information for targeted advertising, according to a complaint filed Sunday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

The information was allegedly transmitted by a snippet of programming code—the ...