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Friday, 21 August 2026

‘Adding insult to injury’: Flight attendants accuse Google of creepy deal to access ‘confidential’ data for AI in Spirit Airlines transaction

The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA objected in US Bankruptcy Court to Google’s $10 million bid to buy Spirit Airlines’ internal digital records, including employee emails, saying the privacy terms protect consumers more than employees. The auction awarded the dataset to Google for $10 million over a $7.5 million offer from Mercor. The dispute seeks to require stronger de-identification/confidentiality safeguards for employee data rather than stop the sale entirely.

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Why You Will Probably Never Know Which of Your Data Went Into AI Training

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The EU’s AI Act transparency requirement forces general-purpose AI providers to publish training-data summaries, but the EU Commission’s FAQ limits what can be identified about any specific user’s content. Providers must list only the top 10 percent of domains by training-data volume (or the top 5 percent / 1,000 domains for smaller firms), leaving most scraped sources unreported. As a result, summaries become category-level disclosure rather than a way to determine whether your specific data or URLs were used, pushing people toward indirect tests, legal discovery, or future opt-outs like rights reservation and platform objections.

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