Corporate Bar Hails Massachusetts Court’s Reading of Wiretap Law

Businesses breathed a sign of relief after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled the use of web-tracking software such as Google Analytics and Meta Pixel doesn’t violate a six-decade-old state privacy law.

The Supreme Judicial Court rejected last week a website user’s claim that two hospitals violated the state’s Wiretap Act by using online tracking technology—one of thousands of similar lawsuits working their way through courts nationwide.

That narrow interpretation of what violates the law will likely quell a wave of litigation in the state, or inspire plaintiffs to more precisely home in on the types of website interactions they’re ...