Meta Seeks Dismissal of Class Action Over Sharing of Health Info

Meta Platforms Inc. told a federal court that its Facebook-pixel tracking tool didn’t violate the healthcare privacy of millions of people, so a proposed class action should be thrown out.

There’s nothing inherently illegal or harmful about the analytics technology at issue in the consolidated lawsuit, which is ubiquitous on the internet and used by websites in many industries to improve online experiences for users, Meta said in a motion to dismiss filed Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

The company punted any potential issues onto individual web developers, who Meta said ...