
More than 97 million passenger records and internal correspondence of Spirit Airlines, which has filed for bankruptcy, are on the sale list.
US Google and artificial intelligence startup Micro1 made a multimillion-dollar offer to purchase the internal communications and data of 97.5 million passenger records of the bankrupt Spirit Airlines.
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Spirit Airlines, which was in financial trouble, filed for bankruptcy.
US technology company Google and artificial intelligence initiative Micro1 made a multimillion-dollar bid to purchase the internal communications and passenger data of the US airline Spirit Airlines, which filed for bankruptcy.
Suppliers and employees are worried about sensitive information leaking. Google announced that it was ready to pay $10 million for the data package, and Micro1 announced that it was ready to pay $12.5 million.
Spirit Airlines, which was in financial bottleneck, sold 27 old Airbus aircraft for $668 million on September 25.
According to case files in New York Bankruptcy Court, 97.5 million passenger records collected since 1992 are listed for sale. The database contains 13.7 million active email addresses, loyalty program information and data of partner companies.
In addition, the personal files of more than 175 thousand personnel and 1.5 million internal correspondence drawn from internal communication channels such as e-mail and Microsoft Teams are also included in the package. It is expected that the court will decide on the sale at the hearing expected to be held today.
Legal experts state that selling the data of companies that have filed for bankruptcy to artificial intelligence companies has become a global business model, and that commercial information such as financial data is not covered by data protection laws, so the process depends entirely on contracts.
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