Switzerland: Opened investigation into Oracle over alleged illegal tracking practices

On 2 September 2022, the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) opened an investigation into Oracle over alleged illegal data tracking practices. The FDPIC stated that it had written to Oracle in Switzerland, informing them of the investigation following a civil lawsuit filed on 19 August 2022 in the United States that made the alleged tracking practices public. The FDPIC noted that in the lawsuit, it was claimed that Oracle collected data through the technologies it provides to other website operators and applications, including cookies, pixels, cross-device tracking and JavaScript code. Oracle allegedly processed the personal and non-personal data without the users' consent and created a database of 5 billion users with the information it had collected.