Oracle hit by lawsuit in US for violating privacy of ‘5 billion people’

Cloud major Oracle has been hit by a privacy class-action lawsuit in the US, claiming that the company’s “worldwide surveillance machine” has amassed detailed dossiers on nearly 5 billion people, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) claimed on Monday.

The lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of California, accused the company and its adtech and advertising subsidiaries of “violating the privacy of the majority of the people on Earth”.

Oracle is an “important part of the tracking and data industry” and generates $42.4 billion in annual revenue.