More than 100 lawmakers led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked Google and Spirit Airlines to keep former employees' records out of a $10 million data sale. So far the objection has cost Google one thing: an independent scrub of the data, a step it says it offered from the start. A bankruptcy judge takes up the sale at an Oct. 14 hearing.
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A bankruptcy court in Manhattan just put a clearing price on internal chatter: 100 million emails and 500 million Teams messages, sold to train AI models.
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Google outbid Mercor by $2.5 million for a dead airline's Teams messages, calendars and codebase. Leaders need a data-disposition position before the wind-down, not during it.
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The Spirit Airlines bankruptcy auction put a price on a defunct company's internal records. The union's objection shows the scrubbing standard was written for customers, not staff.
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Google won 100 million Spirit emails and 500 million Teams chats for $10 million
The sale turns a defunct airline's internal communications into an asset lot, priced at $10 million for the emails, the Teams chats, the code repository and personnel files going back to 1986.
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A bankruptcy auction put a dead airline's internal chat in front of Gemini, and the flight attendants' union has stalled it by arguing that deidentification standards cover consumers only. SpaceX is reportedly looking for similar data.
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Springshot asks a court to carve its own records out of Google's $10m Spirit data purchase
Google bid $10 million for Spirit Airlines' archive of emails, Teams messages and operational data. The aviation software company Springshot says part of that operational record was generated by its platform and was never Spirit's to sell.
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A judge is about to price 34 years of Spirit Airlines paperwork at under two cents a record
Google's $10 million bid for the bankrupt airline's data estate covers 500 million Teams records and 175,000 employee files. The flight attendants' union says the employee half was never anyone's to sell.
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buildConfirmed3 publishers Micro1's late $12.5 million topping bid for Spirit Airlines' internal records puts a number on operational archives. Every company with decades of email now has a valuation problem and a consent problem.
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buildOne report1 publisher Spirit's estate priced its employee records at 1.6 cents an item. A court wants a closer look.
A bankruptcy judge delayed Google's $10 million purchase of Spirit Airlines' internal data after flight attendants argued de-identification preserves everything that made the records sensitive.
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