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Spirit Flight Attendants Fight Google Over AI Data Sale
Photo: Tomás Del Coro from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA / CC BY-SA 2.0 — via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · source
Amid bankruptcy proceedings, Spirit Airlines intends to sell massive amounts of corporate data to Google in a ten million dollar artificial intelligence deal. The flight attendant union is pushing back to protect sensitive personnel files, including medical leave, disciplinary history, and tax documents hidden within half a billion internal messages. While labor representatives are unlikely to block the transaction entirely, they aim to mandate strict privacy safeguards before the transfer occurs, highlighting an emerging digital privacy risk for modern aviation professionals.