• by Wendy Davis , Yesterday

Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has been hit with a privacy lawsuit for allegedly disclosing information about users' interactions with its to Meta and Google, via tracking code on ChatGPT.com.

"When users enter queries into ChatGPT, defendant discloses that information to Meta in real time," a California resident named Amargo Couture alleges in the complaint, filed Wednesday in U.S District Court for the Southern District of California.

The complaint includes an identical allegation regarding Google.

Couture specifically alleges she visited ChatGPT.com in 2025 and this year, and "entered queries related to sensitive information about her health, finances, and other private information."

She adds that has had "active" Facebook and Google accounts "for several years," and uses the same computer browser for ChatGPT as for those accounts.

As with numerous other privacy lawsuits over embedded analytics tools, she claims ChatGPT transmitted data about her online activity to Meta and Google through the Meta Pixel, and Google's analytics code.

"Personal privacy on ChatGPT is an issue with broad implications for individuals’ control of their privacy and personal information," the complaint states.

"Despite reasonable expectations of privacy, and defendant’s legal duties to prevent the disclosure of such private information, defendant disclosed information provided by consumers" to Meta and Google "by incorporating technology owned by each third party into the code of its website," the complaint continues.

Among other claims, the complaint accuses OpenAI of violating federal and California wiretap laws, and engaging in "intrusion upon seclusion" -- a California claim that can be brought over highly offensive privacy violations.

OpenAI did not respond to MediaPost's request for comment.