If you got something in the mail about a 'cookie settlement' and thought it was a scam, it isn't

Patients astatine Mass. General and Brigham and Womens and their assemblage hospitals and doc groups arsenic good arsenic patients astatine Mass. Eye and Ear and Dana-Farber are eligible to stock successful an $18.4-million class-action colony of a assertion involving accusation the health-care providers' Web tract whitethorn person shared with Facebook and Google - but they person to motion up by Dec. 15.

The hospitals agreed, without admitting immoderate guilt, to wage the wealth to marque the Suffolk Superior Court suit spell away. Eligible patients, who were treated astatine the hospitals oregon their suburban facilities betwixt May 23, 2016, and July 31, 2021, were mailed assertion forms with ID numbers connected them, but they referred to a "cookie settlement," which mightiness mean thing to anybody who was not straight progressive successful the suit.

At contented were assorted tracking codes placed connected the Web sites done which patients could marque appointments oregon get accusation astir procedures. In a lawsuit, 2 anonymous patients claimed the codification could beryllium utilized to seizure accusation astir visitors to the Web sites and adjacent what they typed successful online forms for organisation to the 3rd parties.

More inheritance connected the case | Submit a claim (Notice ID and confirmation fig required).

Original tribunal complaint (2.6M PDF).