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If a picture of Larry Ellison in front of a thirty foot screen with the title "Oracle Data Cloud: 5 billion consumer profiles in database; largest consumer identity graph in the world" isn't enough evidence that they're storing and providing access to consumer dossiers, then what would be?


Lol, that’s Larry’s marketing material. Database = store shelves. Likewise Safeway has thousands of products on its shelves - they don’t make any of them, not even the ones with their brand on.


So, the defense is that he's lying about having access to illegal goods, but selling them anyway.

I went down to Safeway yesterday, and bought a kilo of cocaine. It turns out it was ground up sudafed and talcum powder.

The cops were like "lolz. that's all on you; it's just how they market these days".


Huh? He’s just a CEO talking-up his product. Safeway has exclusive deals nowhere else has! Kind of… it’s marketing spin but it’s not a lie.

Also having the same data in a database wouldn’t necessarily be illegal, but it would be useless as behavioural data ages-out after 90 days or less.


His definitely illegal product, based on the long list of violated laws in the article.


Well, no that’s for the court to decide. And it’s a civil suit so no illegality here. This suit takes a very creative interpretation of California privacy law, let’s look at one representative cause for action:

> Oracle also collects minute details about Plaintiffs’ and Class Members’ offline activities, including their brick-and-mortar purchases and location information. By its very nature, Plaintiffs and Class members cannot be aware of or consent to this conduct.

This is exactly what I mean by suing Safeway because of a problem with Cheeze-Its. Aptly in this example the actual entity collecting and selling your data could be a grocery store - That’s who you should sue if you’re bothered by, you know, them selling your data.


> Also having the same data in a database wouldn’t necessarily be illegal

Pardon?




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