Google agrees to addition privacy protections in Spirit Airlines data sale


FILE PHOTO: The Google logo is displayed during a press conference in Berlin, Germany, November 11, 2025. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photo

Nov 10 (Reuters) - ⁠Alphabet's Google has agreed ⁠to additional privacy protections from ‌the acquisition of employees data from defunct Spirit Airlines, a union representing ​employees said Tuesday.

The ⁠agreement clears the ⁠way next week for approval ⁠of Google's $10 ‌million deal to acquire Spirit data ⁠to train AI models. The union ​said ‌it had won a ⁠more rigorous ​de-identification process than previously planned and significant employee data ⁠will be excluded from ​the sale including health and medical information.

As part of Spirit's closure ⁠and asset liquidation, Google won an auction in August for data from emails, spreadsheets ​and calendars ⁠as well as for marketing, ​productivity and operations.

Spirit ‌Airlines halted operations in ​May.

(Reporting by David Shepardson, Editing by Franklin Paul)

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