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comment by goobster
goobster  ·  1318 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Oracle wins TikTok deal

Larry Ellison. The one man in Silicon Valley that can out-weird Elon Musk. Ellison is a deeply weird individual, and Oracle is not a good company to entrust ones' data to. Sure, their databases are secure (they are a database company, after all) but they don't often make the moral/right decision in how to use the data they are entrusted with.

My guess is that Oracle just wants to mine the datasets from TikTok and use the data for their own nefarious needs. I mean, how else is a stodgy old-world company like Oracle going to probe the minds, weaknesses, and proclivities of today's youth?