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Plaintiffs in US Meta tax-filing tracking case denied class certification

( March 30, 2026, 16:30 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Plaintiffs accusing Meta Platforms of illegally wiretapping electronic communications on online tax filing websites offered by H&R Block and TaxAct were denied class certification. District Judge P. Casey Pitts said that plaintiffs’ “expansion of the proposed classes to include all individuals for whom Meta collected any data from H&R Block, rather than only those whose tax-filing data was collected, necessarily raises individualized questions as to what information was collected from each class member.”See attached file. ...

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