The plaintiffs – who say they don’t have a direct relationship with Oracle and no reasonable way to consent to any alleged surveillance – accuse Oracle of recording people’s personal information and selling that information using tools such as ID Graph, which matches individual identities through digital activity, according to the lawsuit. Oracle was headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., until December 2020, when it relocated to Austin, Texas. The plaintiffs named Oracle America as the defendant, calling the entity a data broker registered with California. The plaintiffs seek more than $5 million from Oracle through the lawsuit. The plaintiffs seek class action certification, punitive damages, nominal damages, restitution from Oracle, and permanently stopping Oracle from collecting personal information of affected people. In a statement on ICCL’s website, the group alleges that Oracle has digital dossiers on 5 billion people worldwide, which generate more than $42 billion in annual revenue. He previously served as chief innovation officer at the Irish Times news outlet, according to the lawsuit.
Ryan is described as a resident of Ireland and senior fellow with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and the Open Markets Institute. Golbeck is described as a Florida resident and an associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, with specialties in social networks, privacy and web security. Katz-Lacabe is described in the lawsuit as a California-based privacy rights activist and founder of the Center for Human Rights and Privacy. The named plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Michael Katz-Lacabe, Jennifer Golbeck and Johnny Ryan. The law firm’s past work includes a $9.5 million settlement with a DXC Technology predecessor in 2018 over misclassified employees a $115 million settlement fund from Anthem over a hacker attack in 2014 that Anthem didn’t discover until the next year a $68 million settlement in 2016 with LifeLock over not protecting subscribers from hackers, and a $13 million settlement with LinkedIn in 2016 over email solicitations to join the social media network.
Why Was Oracle Sued?ĬRN has also reached out to the attorneys with the San Francisco-based Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein law firm representing the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. “Oracle’s misconduct has put Plaintiffs’ and Class members’ privacy and autonomy at risk, and violated their dignitary rights, privacy, and economic well-being,” according to the lawsuit.ĬRN has reached out to Oracle for comment.
The plaintiffs also allege that Oracle’s practices violate the Federal Wiretap Act. Oracle’s data collection practices and use of tracking technology such as cookies, pixels and JavaScript are allegedly an invasion of privacy under California law and violate the state’s unfair competition law, according to the plaintiffs’ lawsuit, filed in August in the United States District Court’s Northern District of California. A group of privacy advocates have sued Oracle, accusing the database and cloud services giant of wrongfully collecting and selling the private data of hundreds of millions of people and allegedly violating California state law and United States federal law.
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