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# Cole v. Quest Diagnostics

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.

US Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · Wiretap Act, CIPA and medical-information claims

- Case record
- What this record establishes
- Checks for your own systems
- Sources and limits

## Case record

| Fact | Record |
| --- | --- |
| Authority or court | US Court of Appeals, Third Circuit |
| Law or issue | Wiretap Act, CIPA and medical-information claims |
| Case number | 25-1449 |
| Procedural record | Dismissal affirmed; nonprecedential opinion |
| Opinion or order | 13 November 2025 |
| Source reviewed | 16 October 2026 |

[Court opinion or order](https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/251449np.pdf)

## 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 Unpublished and nonprecedential decisions are identified in the status where applicable.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.

> **Limits of technical evidence**
> A browser capture can show a transfer. It cannot establish every server operation, the terms of a contract or whether a law applies. Compare observed behaviour with the relevant disclosures and legal assessment.

## Sources and limits

[Court opinion or order](https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/251449np.pdf)

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.

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