Labcorp Will Face Claims It Sent Patient Data to Google, Meta

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings failed to escape claims it deployed tracking software on its website to collect and share patients’ personal health information with Meta Platforms Inc., Google, and other third parties without consent.

US District Judge William L. Osteen Jr. denied Labcorp’s motion to dismiss a proposed class action in a Sept. 27 order in the US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.

Labcorp embedded tracker code on its website to collect patients’ sensitive and health-related information and share it with third parties including Meta and Google, according to plaintiffs’ Sept. 2023 amended ...