Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data

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

Google has won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' internal data, paying $10 million for roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, 30 million lines of code and 175,658 employee records. The defunct airline's archive shows how work actually happened, step by step, which is exactly what AI a

Google’s ‘Outrageous’ Plan To Train AI Using Spirit Airlines’ Data Blasted By Flight Attendant Union  Forbes

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.

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

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Bloomberg/Getty Images Google is buying Spirit Airlines' data for $10 million, beating Mercor's $7.5 million bid. The data will be fully anonymized and excludes customer records, Google said. Tech companies are racing to buy corporate records to train their latest AI models. Google's next bi