Calif. Judge Relates Another Case to Meta Consolidated Healthcare Class Action

U.S. District Judge William Orrick for Northern California in San Francisco signed an order Monday, relating Stewart v. Advocate Aurora Health to the consolidated healthcare class action against Meta (docket 3:22-cv-03580). The court has granted motions to consolidate and/or relate 10 cases since October. The Stewart medical privacy action against Advocate and Facebook alleges the companies violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Stored Communications Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act through the use of the Meta Pixel tracking code. Advocate reported a data breach Oct. 20.