A new privacy class action claim has been filed against the enterprise giant.
According to the 66-page complaint filed Friday in the Northern District of California, the tech giant and its subsidiaries have violated the privacy of five billion people by gathering detailed information on them.
Dr Johnny Ryan, senior fellow of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, is one of three class representatives.
The key point is that there is no comprehensive federal privacy law in the U.S.
For an expert snap analysis of the complaint and some key challenges, this thread is highly recommended. The substance of the complaint hinges on allegations that Oracle gathers vast amounts of data from unaware internet users without their consent and uses this intelligence to profile individuals, further enriching profiles via its data marketplace and threatening people's privacy on a vast scale.
Class action in California against Oracle by @johnnyryan and others
Ryan and others' recent case against the IAB over RTB was a pretty impressive piece of work
This case deals with similar issues but in a much trickier legal environment
A rather long
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Ryan said thatOracle has violated the privacy of billions of people. A Fortune 500 company is trying to track where every person in the world goes and what they do. We are going to stop the machine from being used.
The spokesman for Oracle wouldn't say anything about the litigation.
A couple of years ago the firm was facing a legal challenge to its tracking in Europe, which was intended to focus on the legality of their consent to track web users.
The European legal challenges, which were filed in the Netherlands and the UK, have faced tough going, with a Dutch court ruling the class action had failed to demonstrate its representation. The Privacy Collective said it would appeal.
The need to prove damage/loss on an individual basis cannot be skipped because the court found that damage/loss must be suffered in order to claim compensation.
The ruling was considered a hammer blow to opt-out class actions for privacy claims at the time, and it threw another roadblock in the way of the class action in the UK.
Digital rights experts are trying to test similar claims in the US because of the challenges of litigating privacy class actions in Europe.
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