Googleが破産したスピリット航空の業務データを1,000万ドルで落札

"Spirit Airlines ceased operations earlier this year after it failed to emerge from its second Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but attorneys are still handling the disposition of its assets."／"Google is acquiring Spirit Airlines' emails, calendar info, chats, documents, spreadsheets and other business data, according to a bankruptcy court filing."／"Google won a bankruptcy auction for the data, agreeing to pay $10 million for the information."／"We acquired part of an enterprise dataset from Spirit Airlines, which can be helpful in improving our products and AI models,"— Axios より

"If it doesn't go through, AI-powered hiring platform Mercor was the next-highest bidder, at $7.5 million."— Axios より

"The deal includes about 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, according to a court filing."／"In addition to interpersonal communications, the data includes marketing materials, HR info, project management documents, financial databases, audits and presentations."— Axios より

"The tech giant’s $10 million bid includes a vast repository of the defunct airline’s data, including 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams chats and collaboration records, plus information related to revenue, aircraft operations, employee productivity, and audits and fraud, according to an Aug. 14 notice in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York."／"Also included is pricing from 7.2 billion competitor flights, an estimated 7.5 billion passenger transaction records going back to 2008, and pricing curve data, according to court records."／"Google’s purchase also includes about 30 million lines of code, development metadata, and software models and algorithms. The purchase also includes more than 175,000 employee records dating back to 1986."／"The cache includes data related to marketing campaigns, human resources, strategy, and project management."— Bloomberg Law より

"It does not include passenger profiles or their frequent flyer information."— Axios より

"Google’s purchase doesn’t include personal data and privileged materials like Spirit’s 97.5 million passenger profiles or an estimated 50.2 million records related to the Free Spirit loyalty program data, according to court records."— Bloomberg Law より

"Spirit and Google have agreed to exclude booking and transaction records, refunds, inflight purchases and WiFi sales, the new report says. That data will not reach Google “in any form”, the report says. The sale still includes corporate email, which may hold passengers’ personal details."— The Next Web より

"The data does not contain any personally identifiable information, according to a court filing by PJT Partners vice president Dylan Friesner, an investment banker for Spirit."／"The data will be \"deidentified\" — meaning that it won't be associated with individual people and the buyer agrees not to attempt to re-identify the users."／"We will not receive any personal information from this dataset. Any data we receive will be rigorously scrubbed of any personally identifiable information by a third party before receipt."— Axios より

"The privacy official in Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy has recommended approval of the sale of deidentified Spirit Airlines data to Google."／"Spirit has hired Tonic.ai to deidentify that unstructured data, according to the report. The agent must file a certification with the court before every transfer."／"The buyer must publicly commit not to try to reidentify the data."／"Thomson did not assess whether the sale poses risks to Spirit’s employees or third parties."— The Next Web より

Congressman Steven Horsford (NV-04) and Senator Elizabeth Warren led 119 Members of Congress in a letter to Spirit Airlines CEO, Dave Davis, and Google CEO, Sundar Piachi, urging the companies to protect the privacy of thousands of former Spirit employees.— 報道発表より

"A federal judge needs to approve the deal."— Axios より

"A sale hearing is scheduled for Aug. 19 in front of Judge Sean Lane."／"The case is Spirit Aviation Holdings, Bankr. S.D.N.Y., No. 25-11897, notice 8/14/26."— Bloomberg Law より

"A hearing on the sale is scheduled for 14 October. The court has the final say."／"On 3 September, AI training company micro1 filed notice of a competing bid."— The Next Web より