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

What's happening

Google won a bankruptcy auction to acquire massive troves of Spirit Airlines data for about $10 million, including emails, chats, documents, and recorded phone calls. The haul reportedly includes over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded calls, and material from Teams, Oracle, and SAP. Flight attendants and other Spirit employees reacted strongly, accusing the bankrupt carrier of selling out workers by putting employee data up for sale to Google.

Why it's trending

The deal is rising because AI companies are actively buying large real-world datasets to train models, and this sale puts massive employee communications in play.

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