Calif. Judge Orders 2 Privacy Class Actions to Be Related to Meta Pixel Healthcare MDL

U.S. District Judge William Orrick for Northern California ordered two class actions involving the Meta Pixel tracking tool to be reassigned to him and related to In Re: Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation, said his Tuesday order (docket 3:22-cv-03580) in the San Francisco court. Beltran v. Meta Platforms (docket 3:23-cv-05250) and Harrill v. Meta (3:23-cv-05251) allege Meta and plaintiffs’ healthcare providers broke privacy laws when the healthcare defendants placed Meta’s Pixel code on their websites, allowing them to collect the personal health information of their users and share it with Facebook.