Apr. 1, 2026
Class denied in Meta Pixel tax data privacy case
A federal judge denied class certification in a Meta Pixel privacy case, ruling that Statute of Limitations issues and individualized questions prevented plaintiffs from meeting predominance requirements for a class action.
U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts denied the plaintiffs' motion to certify a class in a privacy lawsuit against Meta that claims it scraped data from tax filing websites using its Pixel tool. The plaintiffs tried to subtly expand the parameters of the proposed class but raised statute of limitations questions in the process, the judge ruled.
The motion was denied without prejudice.
The plaintiffs claimed Meta licenses its Pixel data-collection software to third parti...
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