Facebook watches your teens online as they prep for college. How a Meta pixel pulls it off The pixel is on dozens of popular websites targeting kids from kindergarten to college, including some ...

Meta’s pixel code helps businesses reach online customers, but shares sensitive data about them. An investigation by The Markup found that some tax-filing websites using pixel code shared its ...

Facebook has been getting the sensitive health information of millions of Americans through a tracker installed on as many as a third of U.S. hospital websites. U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-VA, is ...

Meta attempted to again convince U.S. Senior District Judge William Orrick to toss out numerous claims in a class action filed by plaintiffs who say their medical privacy was violated by Meta’s Pixel ...

Meta Pixel is a snippet of code used to track visitor activity. It has also been called Facebook Pixel. Pixel collects information about what a user does on a website and what websites do in ...

Meta's Pixel tracking tool is causing more headaches, this time for people filing their taxes online. The Markup has discovered that large tax prep services like H&R Block, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal court in California denied Meta Platforms’ attempt to toss class privacy claims over Meta’s tracking tech, the Pixel, which web users say collects private medical date from ...

A German court has ordered Meta to pay €5,000 to a Facebook user after finding that its tracking pixel technology breaches ...

Chrome 137, which shipped May 26, 2025, includes countermeasures to block the SDP Munging technique used by Meta Pixel, though these have only been made available to a subset of users ...

Additionally, Langley said Meta Pixel collects data from users regardless of whether they have a Facebook account. For users without accounts, Facebook maintains "shadow profiles" and links the ...