‘Adding insult to injury’: Flight attendants accuse Google of creepy deal to access ‘confidential’ data for AI in Spirit Airlines transaction

Failing in today’s business world means being at the mercy of the AI training frenzy.

Spirit Airlines. GIORGIO VIERA / AFP via Getty Images Micro1 says it's making an offer "materially higher" than Google's for Spirit Airlines' data. The AI startup told the airline it will pay $12.5 million for its data. Bankruptcy experts say overturning the deal is possible, but a long shot. Another AI company wants

The flight attendants want assurance that their confidential information will be removed from the sale of the defunct airline’s digital records.

A US bankruptcy court has postponed Google's acquisition of Spirit Airlines' digital archives due to privacy issues raised by former flight attendants. The union expressed concerns that the agreement does not sufficiently shield employee records from AI training misuse. Google assured that any data shared would be anon

Spirit Flight Attendants Fight Google’s Data Bid for AI  wsj.com

Bankrupt Spirit accused of selling out workers in massive data sale to Google.

Tech giant has assured former airline employees and customers that the data will be scrubbed of identifying information

Forbes Daily: Google Wants To Use Spirit Airlines’ Data To Train AI  Forbes

US court delays hearing on Google's purchase of Spirit Airlines data as union objects  Reuters

Did you ever fly on Spirit Airlines? Or work there? Or send an email to someone who worked there? Then your information will soon be feeding Google’s artificial intelligence model.

Spirit Airlines’s abrupt shutdown in May was unprecedented for the airline industry. Bankruptcy may be nothing new, but Spirit completely dissolving, rather than being absorbed by another airline, marked the first major U.S. airline to entirely halt operations in 25 years. Travelers mourned the only reliably cheap opti

Google is buying all of Spirit Airlines’ data to feed its AI models | CNN Business  cnn.com

The deal, which covers about 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, still requires a federal judge's approval

$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP

Alphabet's Google is acquiring ​internal business data from bankrupt ‌Spirit Airlines for $10 million, saying it plans to use the data ​for product development and ​training its AI models.

FILE PHOTO: The Google logo is seen outside the company's offices in London, Britain, June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso/File Photo 18 Aug 2026 05:24AM (Updated: 18 Aug 2026 05:30AM) NEW YORK, Aug 17 : Alphabet's Google is acquiring internal business data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines for $10 million, saying it plans