Welcome to the JH Pixel Privacy Settlement Website.

If you accessed the Johns Hopkins MyChart patient portal between February 1, 2020, and June 28, 2022, you may be entitled to a payment from a class action Settlement.

A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit claiming that Defendants, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Inc., The Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation, and The Johns Hopkins University, disclosed their patients’ personally identifiable information (“PII”) to third parties via the Meta Pixel and other tracking, analytics, and/or advertising technologies without consent in violation of the Maryland Wiretap Act. Defendants deny all of Plaintiff’s claims in the lawsuit and maintain they did nothing wrong but have agreed to the Settlement to avoid the expense, burden and uncertainties associated with continuing the case.

You are included if you are or were a Maryland resident and accessed the Johns Hopkins MyChart patient portal from February 1, 2020, to and through June 28, 2022.

Persons included in the Settlement will be eligible to submit a Claim Form to receive a cash payment of $16.50. Additionally, Defendants are not currently using the Meta Pixel on their main website, www.hopkinsmedicine.org (the “Website”), and pursuant to the Settlement, have created a Web Governance Committee that will assess the implementation and use of analytics and advertising technologies on the Website. Moreover, while continuing to deny liability, Defendants agree that for the next two years Defendants will not use the Meta Pixel on the Website unless the Web Governance Committee determines its use is consistent with applicable law at that time and Defendants make an affirmative disclosure in the Privacy Statement for Websites and Mobile Applications posted on the Website that the Meta Pixel is being used on the Website.

Read this website and the Notice carefully. Your legal rights are affected whether you act or don’t act.


Your Legal Rights and Options in This Lawsuit
Submit A Claim Form
By August 19, 2024
This is the only way to receive a payment.
Exclude Yourself
By August 5, 2024
You will receive no benefits, but you will retain any rights you currently have to sue the Defendants about the claims in this case.
Object
By August 5, 2024
Write to the Court explaining why you don’t like the Settlement.
Go To The Hearing
On September 4, 2024
Ask to speak in Court about your opinion of the Settlement.
Do Nothing You will not get a share of the Settlement benefits and will give up your rights to sue the Defendants about the claims in this case.

These rights and options—and the deadlines to exercise them—are explained in the Notice and on the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page of this website.