Skip to main contentBaker v. Seattle Children’s Hospital
The court held that the public-webpage interactions before it were not communications between two or more individuals under the Washington Privacy Act. It did not decide claims about direct messages to a care team.
Case record
- Washington Supreme Court
- Washington Privacy Act, RCW 9.73
- 104590-5
- State high-court opinion issued
- 8 October 2026
- 16 October 2026
What this record establishes
This page describes the cited opinion or order. A dismissal, pleading decision, standing ruling or jurisdiction decision has a different scope from a merits judgment. Later proceedings and appeals may change the position. Unpublished and nonprecedential decisions are identified in the status where applicable.
Checks for your own systems
Inth’s technical interpretation: use this case to choose what evidence to collect in your own implementation. These checks are not instructions issued by the court or regulator.
- Inspect URLs, referrers, search terms, form values and account identifiers in outgoing payloads.
- Check health, financial and authenticated surfaces separately from public pages.
- Compare browser traffic with server relays, vendor logs and the purposes described to users.
- Map every session-replay and chat vendor, including embedded frames and server relays.
- Compare what the site receives with what each vendor can receive, read, retain and use independently.
Sources and limits
Source review: 16 October 2026. This record covers the cited source and procedural stage. It does not audit the organisation’s present implementation or establish every later legal development.