02:40 PM EDT, 07/19/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Oracle (ORCL) ) agreed to pay $115 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of violating California's privacy laws by collecting and selling personal information without consent.

The preliminary settlement, filed Thursday night in a federal court in San Francisco, still requires court approval.

The plaintiffs claimed Oracle created unauthorized "digital dossiers" containing online browsing data, which were then sold without consent, according to the filing in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The settlement covers people affected since Aug. 19, 2018.

Oracle also agreed to stop gathering user-generated information from URLs of previously visited websites and text entered in online forms other than on its own websites.

Oracle did not immediately respond to MT Newswires' request for comment.

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