Stichting The Privacy Collective inadmissible
01 March 2022
Amsterdam District Court 29 December 2021, ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2021:7647
Case Overview The Privacy Collective ('TPC') claims to act on behalf of all Dutch internet users in these WAMCA proceedings. TPC alleges that the software companies 'Oracle' (Oracle Nederland B.V., Oracle Corporation and Oracle America, Inc.) and 'Salesforce' (SFDC Netherlands B.V. and Salesforce.com, Inc.) violated the privacy of 10 million Dutch internet users by, in brief, collecting, processing and selling personal data to third parties and enabling them, inter alia, to offer personalised advertisements on websites. In addition, TPC alleges that the privacy of Dutch internet users had been infringed by a data breach at Oracle. In brief, TPC claimed, as a declaratory judgement, that Oracle and Salesforce are liable for all direct and indirect damage caused amounting to a total of EUR 11 billion.
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