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Meta must face US privacy claim over Pixel tracking on tax websites

( August 6, 2025, 23:02 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Meta Platforms must face allegations under the California Invasion of Privacy Act in a US lawsuit that Meta’s Pixel tracker functions as a pen register and illegally tracked users of tax-filing websites, a federal judge ruled today. The judge found the plaintiffs have plausibly alleged that Meta used the Pixel to collect user data and rejected Meta’s argument that Pixel cannot be both a wiretap — which the judge previously found the plaintiffs have plausibly alleged Pixel to be — and a pen register. See attached order....

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