Overview
- A California federal class action, filed Wednesday, alleges OpenAI embedded Meta Pixel and Google Analytics on ChatGPT.com to capture user activity.
- The complaint says those trackers relayed chat topics and identifiers such as emails, account IDs, cookies, and device data to advertising systems without clear consent.
- Plaintiffs argue this violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and California’s Invasion of Privacy Act and they seek an injunction and statutory damages under state law.
- OpenAI is the only defendant while Meta and Google are named as data recipients, and the company did not immediately comment on the lawsuit.
- The filing follows similar claims against Perplexity and growing regulator reviews in Europe, Japan, and Canada, and news reports say a drawn‑out case could weigh on AI ad plans and OpenAI’s expected stock listing.