Patients Drop Claims Health Providers Sold Personal Data to Meta

Allina Health System and other health care providers escaped a suit accusing them of sharing swaths of patients’ sensitive data without consent with third parties including Meta Platforms Inc.

The Sept. 30 complaint, filed in Minnesota state court, had accused Allina Health, Essentia Health, Health Partners, and St. Francis Regional Medical Center of deploying tracking technologies on their websites to collect and share patients’ sensitive information to Facebook, Google LLC, Microsoft Corp., and other third parties.

The plaintiffs dropped their claims against all the health providers in a notice of voluntary dismissal, without prejudice, filed Thursday in the ...