A class-action lawsuit has been filed in California against Oracle Corporation, the US enterprise technology company, for privacy violations. The 66-page complaint has three class representatives, one of whom is Irish Council for Civil Liberties senior fellow Johnny Ryan. The lawsuit claims Oracle has conducted mass surveillance and has collected detailed information on five billion people. The story was also reported in the Independent.ie.
UPDATE: 240822 - According to The Register, the allegations stem from a 2016 presentation by Oracle founder Larry Ellison in which he discussed the company's data collection practices: "It is a combination of real-time looking at all of their social activity, real-time looking at where they are including, micro-locations – and this is scaring the lawyers [who] are shaking their heads and putting their hands over their eyes – knowing how much time you spend in a specific aisle of a specific store and what is in that aisle of a store. As we collect information about consumers and you combine that with their demographic profile, and their past purchasing behavior, we can do a pretty good job of predicting what they're going to buy next."
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