>I heard Oracle is deep into really shitty kinds of user tracking/spying.
Absolutely not defending Oracle, but who isn't into shitty user tracking and spying? It's a central part of most business models, because they give the service away for free.
Like using gray legal area devices to track you in the real world even if you never signed any agb. Like tracking Bluetooth IDs in and around shopping center, like tracking the anti theft/processing pipeline RFID ships which might still be left in your closes, like adding spyware to apps which listens to ultrasonic sound bakons in the background and then phones home. Like using face recognition on security cameras in shops but potentially also in the streets around them.
I.e. all the kinds a questionable tracking which many people aren't aware of at all (as far as I can tell).
And Oracle seems to be big into bringing all this tracking sources and data from Google/Facebook/etc. and data they can get from other sources (e.g. finance institutes) together and automatically analyze it to create profiles about everyone.
Through only as far as I remember, it's a while back that I read about that. I somewhat hope that I'm misremembering tbh. Would be a nicer world.
Well considering they completely butchered their GDPR compliance to leverage said data overseas w.r.t digital audiences (they just had to pull out) I'd guess they would like the idea of more activity data, but don't have much confidence they'll get much value from it.
