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Oracle's Algorithmic Data Processing System Alleged as Unlawful and Violating Privacy Rights
Oracle's automated system involving algorithmic data processing was alleged in a lawsuit to have been unlawfully collecting personal data from millions of people and violating their privacy rights.
- Date it happened
- 2014-12-22
- Organisation involved
- Oracle
- Product, system or model
- Oracle may collect data from Internet users without their consent in order to create more comprehensive user profiles to sell on the marketplace for data.
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