It's difficult to be more cavalier about the privacy of computer users than the criminal enterprise formerly known as Facebook™, but Oracle is accused of unlawfully tracking 5 billion people.
Given that the current world population is 7¾ billion, this is quite an accomplishment:
American multinational tech company Oracle is facing a class-action lawsuit claiming it tracks and collects personal information on billions of people, generating revenue of over $40 billion a year in the process.
The class-action has three class representatives, including Dr. Johnny Ryan, Senior Fellow of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), and was filed against Oracle in the US District Court for the Northern District of California last week. It alleges Oracle has violated the Federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act, California's state constitution, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, competition law, and California Common Law.
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Oracle stands accused of collecting detailed dossiers on 5 billion people, with the information gathered including names, home addresses, emails, purchases online and in the real world, physical movements in the real world, income, interests and political views, and a detailed account of online activity.
This claim is backed up by a video on the ICCL website(Opens in a new window) of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison describing how the company's real-time machine learning system collects this information and confirms the 5 billion profiles stored in the "Oracle Data Cloud." The profiles are referred to as a "Consumers Identity Graph."
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They have him on tape? Oh snap!
It will be interesting to see how Ellison buys his way out of this.
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