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The Third Circuit affirmed dismissal on the pleaded facts, including its treatment of Meta as a participant receiving a direct browser transmission. The opinion does not make all health-site tracking lawful.
Case record
- US Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
- Wiretap Act, CIPA and medical-information claims
- 25-1449
- Dismissal affirmed; nonprecedential opinion
- 13 November 2025
- 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 Unpublished and nonprecedential decisions are identified in the status where applicable.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.
- Inventory browser destinations, server relays, exports and partner integrations.
- Trace which fields leave the service, when, and for which stated purpose.
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.