Google buys Spirit Airlines' entire employee dataset at auction, freaking out flight attendants
Ars Technica AI · rss · 2026-08-20
Google won an auction last Friday for a huge trove of Spirit Airlines data. It contains no customer personal data, but covers nearly the airline's entire employment and workplace records. Google agreed to a court-appointed ombudsman overseeing PII stripping before transfer, pledged to keep the data de-identified and never intentionally re-identify it; any third parties granted access would be bound by the same terms. Flight attendants remain uneasy about the deal.
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