Security researchers say Meta and Yandex used native Android apps to listen on localhost ports, allowing them to link web browsing data to user identities and bypass typical privacy protections.… ...

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For the second time in two years, U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Rochon has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a man who accuses the NBA of illegally using the Meta Pixel tracking tool to disclose his ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Columbus Regional Health has agreed to engage in settlement discussions to potentially resolve a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that it unlawfully shared patients’ personal ...

The issue of tracking technologies in health care settings came to light in June 2022 after a report by tech publication The Markup found that the Meta Pixel was installed on 33 of Newsweek’s top 100 ...

WakeMed and Duke Health have reached multimillion-dollar settlements following lawsuits over the use of Meta Pixel trackers that may have shared sensitive patient data with Meta, Facebook's parent ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has repeatedly affirmed dismissals of putative class actions brought under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA ...

A German court has ordered Meta to pay €5,000 to a Facebook user after finding that its tracking pixel technology breaches the General Data Protection Regulation by collecting personal data from third ...

Meta was hit this week with a new privacy lawsuit for allegedly secretly tracking users' browsing activity on mobile websites that embed Meta's analytics pixel, and linking that activity to users' ...