Overview
- California resident Amargo Couture filed a proposed class action in federal court in the Northern District of California on behalf of U.S. users of ChatGPT.com.
- The complaint alleges OpenAI embedded Meta Pixel and Google Analytics on ChatGPT.com, which sent chat topics and identifiers such as account IDs and email addresses to those companies without clear consent.
- Meta Pixel and Google Analytics are small code snippets that log web actions and pass cookies and device signals to ad systems, which the suit says turned chatbot exchanges into data for targeting.
- The suit names only OpenAI as defendant and seeks an injunction and statutory damages under California privacy laws, while Google and Meta are identified as recipients but not defendants.
- OpenAI has not publicly responded to the specific claims and the case is in early stages, in a broader wave of privacy challenges that includes a similar earlier complaint against Perplexity and mounting regulator scrutiny.