Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized passenger records
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This treasure trove of data came at a relatively affordable $10 million.
  • 𝕽𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖑 𝕽𝖊𝖇𝖊𝖑@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    721·
    19 hours ago

    Court records reveal that the Google purchase includes 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, 7.2 billion records for competitors’ flights, 7.5 billion passenger transaction records from 2008, and more than 175,000 employee records from 1986. Aside from this, the company will also get information on revenue, aircraft operations, employee productivity records, audits and fraud, marketing campaigns, human resources records, project management, and pricing curve data, among others.

    This could be a cause of concern for anyone who’s ever transacted with the airline, either as a customer, employee, contractor, or even investor, especially as AI is known for its privacy problems.

    Add it to the list of reasons to always use email aliases as well as unique passwords and phone numbers!

    • zikzak025@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      16 hours ago

      And never work for any company ever, apparently.

      If my place of business goes bankrupt, is Google going to get access to my employment records? The memes I share in work chats? My disciplinary record? My bank account details I used for direct deposit?

      If someone puts that they worked at Spirit on a resume, what is the likelihood that job openings will start to query these things to see how far they can lowball someone on wages, or whether they’re a “difficult” employee? This is shit that runs the risk of following someone for life.

      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
        131·
        15 hours ago

        The endgame is eugenics too. Only the “perfrct” human gets allowed to survive, making it impossible for people with even a small mark on their record to survive.

        • Hasnep@lemmy.mlEnglish
          42·
          12 hours ago

          That… Feels a bit much. We can agree data collection like this is bad without conspiracy theories like that.

          • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
            5·
            10 hours ago

            You can deduce from the way behave, and what they say.

            Peter Thiel did mention humans will end up like horses going to the glue factory.

            There’s currently an ethnic cleansing of America, and disability/medicare is intentionaly being withdrawn.