'Jane Doe' Dismisses Claims Vs. Hey Favor in PII Lawsuit; Other Claims Stand

Plaintiff Jane Doe dismissed voluntarily all claims against Hey Favor, with prejudice, in a privacy lawsuit against the women's healthcare platform, said her Monday notice of dismissal (docket 3:23-cv-00059) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. In a June motion to lift the stay of proceedings in the privacy case, Doe said dismissing Hey Favor, which filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April, means "the action will exist against the advertising and analytics defendants“ alone as if Plaintiff never named Favor (see 2306270030). Doe's suit alleged Hey Favor knowingly and intentionally sent personally identifiable information about her medical history to Meta, TikTok and analytics company FullStory. Doe also dismissed with prejudice her seventh claim for relief alleging FullStory, Meta Platforms, TikTok and ByteDance (collectively advertising and analytics defendants) aided and abetted Favor’s violation of the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act. To the extent that Doe brought a claim against both Favor and the advertising and analytics defendants, that claim is dismissed only as to the allegations against Favor, said the notice. Also Monday, the plaintiff filed an amended complaint removing the allegations 1) that Hey Favor “knowingly and intentionally disclosed and allowed” the advertising and analytics defendants to “intercept users’ health data and other highly sensitive information; and 2) that Favor disclosed and allowed third parties to intercept at least users’ prescription information. The amended complaint reads: “Unbeknownst to Plaintiff and Class members, FullStory’s, Meta’s, and TikTok’s (collectively “Defendants”) technology was intentionally incorporated on Favor’s Platform, through which Defendants intercepted users’ health data and other highly sensitive information."