Lawsuit accuses Oracle of tracking '5 billion people'

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Oracle's individual dossiers apparently include names, emails, residential addresses, on- and offline purchases, physical movements, income, hobbies and political opinions
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Oracle's individual dossiers apparently include names, emails, residential addresses, on- and offline purchases, physical movements, income, hobbies and political opinions

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties claims Oracle makes $42.4 billion a year from its surveillance.

A privacy class-action lawsuit in the USA alleges that cloud giant Oracle has gathered comprehensive dossiers on around 5 billion individuals. One of the plaintiffs involved in the case [pdf] is...

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