Google Lands Spirit's Worker Data Auction, Prompting Flight Attendant Privacy Alarm
Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy led to a $10 million auction of a vast, de-identified archive of Spirit employees’ emails, HR, payroll, and other workplace data (roughly 100 million emails); a third‑party scrubber will remove PII before transfer, and Google says it will not re-identify the data. The Association of Flight Attendants objects, arguing worker confidentiality isn’t adequately protected and asking the court to exclude flight-attendant data and require safeguards; Google maintains it aims to protect data, but privacy concerns linger, with a September court hearing to decide the sale.