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Spirit Airlines data sale to Google sparks flight attendant privacy concerns

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Spirit Airlines is seeking court approval to sell 34 years of its data, including sensitive employee information, to Google for $10 million to aid in AI model training. This proposed sale has sparked significant opposition from former flight attendants and their union, the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), who argue that the data contains private employee details that should not be sold for AI purposes. The AFA's objection highlights a potential new legal battleground over worker data privacy in the age of AI, as current laws may not adequately protect employees whose data is collected and sold by bankrupt companies. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential legal challenges and ethical concerns regarding the use of employee data for AI training, potentially impacting future data acquisition strategies.

RANK_REASON This is a legal objection to a data sale involving an airline and an AI company, not a core AI release or research.

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Spirit Airlines data sale to Google sparks flight attendant privacy concerns

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  1. Wired — AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Aarian Marshall ·

    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.

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