Spirit Flight Attendants Fight Google’s Data Bid for AI
The flight attendants want assurance that their confidential information will be removed from the sale of the defunct airline’s digital records.
A bankruptcy court postponed a Sept. 9 hearing to evaluate objections from former Spirit Airlines flight attendants regarding Google's $10 million purchase of the airline's data. The flight attendants' labor union argued that the deal could violate worker privacy and asked the court to exclude confidential flight attendant information from the sale.
Google had previously won the auction of Spirit's digital archives, including employee records and emails, with the intention of using the data to enhance its products and AI models. The union claimed that the transaction's consumer privacy protections did not extend to employee data, which they felt lacked adequate safeguards. Google stated that any data received would undergo rigorous scrubbing of personally identifiable information by a third party before usage.
The bankruptcy judge granted the request to delay the sale hearing, allowing time to assess the claims.
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