COMPANY PROFILE

Oracle

Headquarters: Austin, United States · Founded: 1977 · Listed: NYSE: ORCL

1 fine or sanction2 data breaches

What it does and how it makes money

Oracle sells businesses database software, enterprise applications (ERP, HR, customer experience, supply chain), cloud infrastructure and hardware; it also owns Java and Oracle Health (formerly Cerner). It ran an advertising and data business (Oracle Advertising) that it shut down on September 30, 2024.

In fiscal 2026, $33,989 million came from cloud and $24,541 million from software (licenses and support); the rest came from services and hardware. ^[1]

What data it collects about you

Its general privacy policy covers data it collects through its websites, apps, social media pages, events and sales and marketing activities. Oracle stopped providing Oracle Advertising on September 30, 2024, and its advertising opt-out tool is no longer available. ^[2]

How it turns your data into money

For years Oracle ran an advertising-data business (BlueKai, Datalogix, AddThis, Data Marketplace and the 'ID Graph' to recognise a person across devices). A 2022 class action in California accused it of extensive surveillance of internet users and selling their information to third parties; in July 2024 Oracle agreed to pay $115 million without admitting wrongdoing, having shut AddThis in 2023 and announced its ad tech products would cease to exist on September 30, 2024. Today its privacy policy says it collects behavioural data on its sites (ads clicked or viewed, pages, searches) to tailor marketing to your interests, and may share data with distributors, partners and third parties 'to facilitate interest-based advertising'. Its current business with third-party data is selling marketing and customer-experience software to companies. ^[3]

Where it is incorporated

Oracle Corporation, a Delaware corporation with principal offices at 2300 Oracle Way, Austin, Texas (an owned 0.9-million-sq-ft headquarters), listed on the NYSE; founded in 1977 in Santa Clara, California by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates. In April 2024 it announced a future move of its headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee, with no timeframe. ^[4]

Taxes and low-tax countries

Its annual report for the year ended May 31, 2026 states an effective tax rate of 12.6% (12.1% in 2025 and 10.9% in 2024) against the 21% federal rate, and its tax reconciliation includes items for the statutory-rate difference between the U.S. and Switzerland, Malta and Bermuda; it also lists Ireland among countries with significant tax controversies. According to The Currency (April 2025), Oracle EMEA Holdings Ltd is the group's top holding company in Ireland, its direct parent is in Bermuda, the Dublin office centralises non-U.S. profits, it resolved a capital reduction freeing $15.2 billion for distribution out of Ireland, and Oracle decommissioned its 'Double Irish' structure in December 2020. ^[4]

Competition and monopoly

The U.S. Department of Justice sued to block Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft, arguing it would substantially lessen competition in high-function human resources and financial management software. On September 9, 2004 Judge Vaughn R. Walker (Northern District of California) ruled for Oracle; the DOJ said it was 'disappointed' and the takeover went ahead. No abuse-of-dominance finding against Oracle was found. ^[5]

Money

Fines and sanctions

• FTC · United States · December 21, 2015
  Settlement with the FTC over deceiving consumers about the security of Java SE updates, which did not remove older vulnerable versions. No fine: Oracle had to warn users about old versions and offer to uninstall them. These are the FTC's allegations, resolved by settlement. ^[7]

Data breaches and hacks

• April 2025
  An attacker broke into legacy Oracle Cloud Classic (Gen 1) servers and stole identity system data: usernames, emails and hashed passwords. The attacker claimed 6 million records; Oracle denied it publicly but, according to Bloomberg, confirmed it privately to some customers. ^[8]
• March 2025
  Theft of patient data from electronic health records stored on legacy Cerner (Oracle Health) servers; Oracle notified affected U.S. hospitals. ^[9]

Ask it to delete your data

This is the page the company itself gives to ask it to delete your data or stop selling it: Open its page ^[10]

With GUARDIANA or GUARDIANA ZERO, you download from this same profile the letter asking it to delete your data, under your country’s law, ready to attach to an email.

Its website

https://www.oracle.com/

Sources

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation
2. https://www.oracle.com/si/legal/privacy/
3. https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/oracle-agrees-to-pay-115-million-to-settle-consumer-data-privacy-lawsuit/
4. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000119312526277521/orcl-20260531.htm
5. https://www.justice.gov/archive/atr/public/press_releases/2004/205372.htm
6. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001341439/000119312526265848/orcl-ex99_1.htm
7. https://ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2015/12/oracle-agrees-settle-ftc-charges-it-deceived-consumers-about-java
8. https://bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/oracle-privately-confirms-cloud-breach-to-customers
9. https://bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/oracle-health-breach-compromises-patient-data-at-us-hospitals
10. https://www.oracle.com/si/legal/privacy/privacy-choices/

What this profile does NOT say

• It does not say this company does anything illegal. The only thing it states about anyone’s legality is what a regulator or a court has already decided, with the date and the link to the source.
• It does not say what data of yours it holds: only the company knows, which is why you have the right to ask it.
• If you are this company and a fact is wrong, write to hola@guardianagroup.com and it will be corrected, with its date.

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