Oracle will pay $115 million in compensation to avoid a major lawsuit in the U.S. The company had to deal with complainants whose online data it allegedly unlawfully collected and bundled into digital files.

Oracle pays $115 million in severance pay to… Class action lawsuitLawsuit in the US state of California. There, Oracle came into conflict with consumers who claimed that the company had violated local and federal data protection laws in the USA.

Digital files

The complainants alleged that Oracle tracked the online behavior of hundreds of millions of consumers and collected them in digital files that could be used for marketing purposes. Consider the allegation a gross violation of the local equivalent of our GDPR.

The complainants alleged that Oracle tracked, among other things, users’ browsing behavior, where they used their credit cards, bought gas, or what banking services they used, and sold this data to marketers.

Oracle denies having done anything wrong and has been negotiating with the complainants for months. The settlement has now put an end to the impending legal dispute. Oracle has now also closed its own advertising division, Oracle Advertising.