Friday, 9 October, 2026
Lawmakers Fire Up Over Google’s Spirit Data Grab
By TechShots Studio
More than 120 US lawmakers have raised serious privacy concerns over Google’s $10 million bankruptcy auction purchase of defunct Spirit Airlines' internal data—including millions of employee emails and Microsoft Teams chats—to train its AI models. Led by lawmakers like Steven Horsford and Elizabeth Warren, politicians are demanding that sensitive worker and passenger information be excluded from the transaction to protect personal privacy.
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