cpomagazine.com,
Mon 08/29:
Class Action Lawsuit Accuses Oracle of “Global Surveillance,” Creating Detailed Profiles of Five Billion People
A class action lawsuit is accusing Oracle of conducting global surveillance, essentially attempting to create detailed shopping and spending profiles of the world’s entire population. While social media platforms usually dominate the conversation about global surveillance, the Oracle Data Marketplace and the company’s BlueKai service have quietly become one of the world’s largest sources of the sort of personal information that “data brokers” sell for targeted advertising purposes. Numerous individual companies also sell customer data to Oracle. The class action lawsuit highlights the fact that there remains very little federal-level legal protection for consumers against the sort of “global surveillance” approach it describes. It cites “Project Alamo,” a 220-million person database created using Oracle services, as an example of micro-targeted voter suppression that may have impacted the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. A class action suit founded on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) violations was filed in Holland in 2020, but was dismissed this year due to lack of standing (though with the possibility of appeal).
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