5 billion people globally are tracked and personal information collected?

Information from a class-action lawsuit against Oracle shows that the software company has built an artificial intelligence tool to collect and sell personal information of Internet users globally. The class action lawsuit represented by Dr. Johnny Ryan, senior member of the Irish Civil Liberties Council (ICCL), was recently filed in the Northern District Court of California (USA).

According to the lawsuit, Oracle is accused of tracking and collecting personal information of billions of people around the world, helping the software company generate up to $40 billion in annual revenue. The lawsuit alleges that Oracle violated the Federal Electronic Communications Commission’s Privacy Act, violated California’s privacy law…

According to the lawsuit, up to 5 billion Internet users globally have personal information collected by Oracle. According to a report by research firm Cybersecurity Ventures, by 2022, there will be 6 billion Internet users globally, which means that more than 83% of Internet users globally have had their personal information stolen by Oracle.

Users’ personal information collected by Oracle includes full name, home address, email address, online transactions, income, interests, political views, online account information, physical activities in real life…

In his lawsuit, Dr. Johnny Ryan cited a video of Larry Ellison, founder and chairman of Oracle, sharing about how the software company’s artificial intelligence system was able to collect and identify receives personal information of 5 billion people globally, then stores the information into Oracle’s cloud data. Larry Ellison’s statement was made at the Oracle Openworld event hosted by Oracle in 2016.

According to Dr. Johnny Ryan, Oracle has invaded the privacy of billions of people globally. “The company is on a dangerous mission to track where people in the world are going and doing. We are taking action to stop Oracle’s surveillance,” said Dr. Johnny Ryan.

Oracle has not yet commented on the allegations.