Spirit Airlines Wants to Sell Its Data to Google. Former Flight Attendants Are Freaked Out
The Association of Flight Attendants is challenging a court-approved plan to sell Spirit Airlines' employee data to Google. The union argues that the sale of sensitive worker information for AI training violates privacy and labor rights.
Why it matters
This case sets a precedent for how employee data is treated during corporate bankruptcies and its subsequent use in training artificial intelligence models.
In a statement, a Google spokesperson said the data “can be helpful in improving our products and AI models.” The sale would not include customer data, and Google “will not receive any personal information from this dataset,” the spokesperson said. The winning offer, chosen over a competing $7.5 million proposal from AI data and training company Mercor, has to be approved by a judge.
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