On Review, ECPA Claim Over Health Care Firm’s Tracking Deemed Properly Pleaded

( January 22, 2025, 9:49 AM EST) -- RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Reversing his previous dismissal of an Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) claim against a health care provider, a California federal judge granted a patient’s reconsideration motion and found that she sufficiently alleged that the defendant acted with improper purpose by using Facebook pixels to purportedly gather and share her protected health information (PHI) with third parties in violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)....