Facebook Meta Pixel Collection of HIPAA-Protected Data Complaint

August 15, 2022

Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly known as Facebook, Inc., offers something called the Meta Pixel that allows the company to track Facebook users when they are in places on the Internet other than the Facebook platform and gather information about them. The complaint alleges that as a part of this tracking, it is engaging in unlawful activity: “Facebook is using the Meta Pixel to intercept communications between patients and their healthcare providers.”