N.C. Judge Severs Pixel Claims and Transfers Them to Calif.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Joi Peake for Middle North Carolina in Winston-Salem signed an order Wednesday (docket 1:22-cv-00727) severing the Pixel privacy claims of plaintiffs Kim Naugle and Afrika Williams against Mega and transferring them for consolidation with seven similar cases (docket 3:22-cv-03580) under U.S. District Judge William Orrick for Northern California in San Francisco. All the cases allege Meta uses the Pixel tracking tool to receive the health information of millions of Facebook users in the U.S. The remaining Pixel claims that Naugle and Williams assert against Duke University Health System and WakeMed are not transferred, said Peake’s order.