Oracle in legal challenge: Vendor sued by privacy activists over 'data violations'

Oracle is facing a privacy class action lawsuit in the US over data collection practices. An Irish-American group of privacy activists filed a claim in California accusing Oracle of improperly collecting and selling the private data of "hundreds of millions" of people. The plaintiffs allege in a 66-page class action complaint that Oracle took part in the deliberate and purposeful surveillance of the general population via their digital and online existence.  They said that in its rol...