Google’s bid to buy Spirit Airlines’ data has stalled, as a flight attendants’ union says the privacy terms protect customers rather than employees, and a rival bidder has also come in with a higher bid.
Google wanted to buy this Spirit Airlines data for around $10 million, which included roughly 100 million emails and 80,000 email accounts, and listed 17,082,644 OneDrive items, 20,577,677 SharePoint items, and 500 million Teams items, along with the Microsoft 365 environment where they were stored.
It also includes over a million time card records going back to December 2012, and employee records back to August 1986. This package also includes payroll records, employee tax forms, and crew pairings. Apparently, it also includes around 30 million lines of code, plus revenue, aircraft operations, and audit data.
A flight attendants’ union is asking the court to decline this transaction
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA has filed a limited objection to the sale, asking the court to decline the transaction if it does not extend the same level of protections to flight attendant data as it does to consumer data. This is concerning employment records, which does pose a legit concern. The data is set to be de-identified, but that could also affect data integrity across the board, where much of the data is valuable only because it can be tracked and linked reliably by AI models.
This data can be very valuable for Google, and given how much data it would get for its $10 million bid, this is practically a steal for the biggest consumer AI company on the planet right now. There is still a September 9th hearing that could block Google from closing this deal.
That’s not the only trouble Google might have with purchasing this data, however. Micro1, an AI startup, has put in a $12.5 million bid for this data. Beating out Google’s $10 million bid.
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