In re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litig.
In re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litig.
Case No. 22-cv-03580 (N.D. Cal. 2024)
January 15, 2025

DeMarchi, Virginia K.,  United States Magistrate Judge

Protective Order
Privacy
Redaction
Medical Records
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The Court ordered the plaintiffs to produce documents without redactions of health-related information, as it was deemed relevant to the case and protected by the existing protective order. The plaintiffs were allowed to retain redactions of other personal information. This highlights the importance of protecting sensitive ESI during legal proceedings.
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IN RE META PIXEL HEALTHCARE LITIGATION
This Document Relates To: All Actions
Case No. 22-cv-03580-WHO (VKD)
United States District Court, N.D. California
Filed January 15, 2025
DeMarchi, Virginia K., United States Magistrate Judge

ORDER RE NOVEMBER 26, 2024 DISCOVERY DISPUTE RE REDACTIONS OF NAMED PLAINTIFFS’ DATA Re: Dkt. No. 708

The parties disagree regarding whether plaintiffs may redact private health-related information from their patient portal activity logs. Dkt. No. 708. The Court held a hearing on this dispute on January 15, 2025. See Dkt. No. 737. 

As discussed during the hearing, the Court finds that plaintiffs have put at issue in this case the types and categories of health-related information that they have redacted from these records. Plaintiffs have offered no persuasive justification for redacting this information from documents produced during discovery. The protective order entered in this action affords protections that are sufficient to protect plaintiffs’ privacy with respect to this information. 

Plaintiffs must produce the documents in question without redactions of health-related information by January 22, 2025. Plaintiffs may retain redactions of other personal information, as noted in Meta’s footnote 2 of the discovery dispute letter. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: January 15, 2025