Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI
Summary
The Register reports Google purchased Spirit Airlines' deidentified data at a bankruptcy auction for $10M, including over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, and tens of millions of documents from Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint. Google says the data will be used to improve its AI services and will scrub any PII; the article discusses privacy, data provenance, and the risk of AI models training on personal data without clear consent.