Court Sides With Facebook Over Tracking At Health Sites

Siding with Facebook, a federal appellate court refused to revive claims that the company violated users' privacy by tracking them at health sites. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that users who sued consented to Facebook's tracking practices by accepting the company's terms of service. The ruling stems from a 2016 lawsuit filed by three users who alleged in a class-action complaint that Facebook gathered data about their visits to health sites, including ones operated by the American Cancer Society, Melanoma Research Foundation and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.