OpenAI Pushes Judge To Throw Out Privacy Suit 08/21/2026

OpenAI is pressing a federal judge to throw out a privacy lawsuit by a ChatGPT user who claims the company wrongly disclosed her queries to Meta and Google.

In papers filed Wednesday with U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Huff in the Southern District of California, the artficial intelligence company argues the plaintiff, California resident Amargo Couture, can't move forward with the lawsuit because she consented to any alleged disclosures.

"All of plaintiff’s claims are barred because she consented to OpenAI’s terms of use and privacy policy, which expressly inform users that information about their use of ChatGPT, including their prompts, may be disclosed to third parties," the company contends.

The new papers stem from a class-action complaint filed by Couture in May, when she alleged that ChatGPT wrongly transmitted data about her online activity to Meta and Google through embedded software -- the Meta Pixel and Google's analytics code.

She alleged that starting in 2025, she visited the chatbot's website and "entered queries related to sensitive information about her health, finances, and other private information."

Last month, OpenAI filed papers seeking dismissal of the complaint. Before Huff ruled on the motion, Couture amended her complaint by adding allegations that OpenAI knows its users "communicate highly sensitive personal information" to the chatbot.