Spirit Airlines Wants to Sell Its Data to Google. Former Flight Attendants Are Freaked Out
“It never crossed my mind that they would be so bold as to sell our private data for AI,” says one former Spirit Airlines flight attendant.
Google's purchase of Spirit Airlines' data could raise concerns over privacy and employee rights, according to a labor union representing former flight attendants. The data being sold includes over a million time-card records, 175,000 employee records, and 20 million Microsoft files. The Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) argues that even Google's safeguards may not prevent privacy violations of decades of flight attendants' data.
The union's legal objection aims to either exclude employee data from the sale or ensure it receives the same protections as consumer information. The Spirit Airlines bankruptcy proceeding could set a precedent for how labor unions and corporations handle employee data in the age of AI.
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