Judge denies bid to treat Meta Pixel as pen register under Calif. privacy law
By Maria Dinzeo ( May 12, 2026, 19:36 GMT | Insight) -- A California federal judge kept a proposed privacy class action alleging that Meta covertly linked Android users’ mobile browsing activity to their Facebook and Instagram accounts mostly intact, but rejected a bid to treat Meta’s advertising cookie as a pen register under the California Invasion of Privacy Act.A California federal judge kept a proposed privacy class action alleging that Meta covertly linked Android users’ mobile browsing activity to their Facebook and Instagram accounts mostly intact, but rejected a bid to treat Meta’s advertising cookie as a pen register under the California Invasion of Privacy Act....
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