Report: Google Buys Spirit Data for $10M

@Vanth@reddthat.com · @Vanth@reddthat.com · 19 Aug 2026

information will be scrubbed from the records before they are transferred to Google.

Uh huh, sure. I believe them and have absolutely no reason to doubt either their honesty or their competency on this matter.

@dparticiple@sh.itjust.works · @dparticiple@sh.itjust.works · 19 Aug 2026

This should be illegal. Especially when fused with Google’s existing data sets, de-anonymization will be trivial in many cases.

@borkborkbork@piefed.social · @borkborkbork@piefed.social · 19 Aug 2026

I cannot fathom this. Are you trying to make your AI products worse? because that’s the direction scraping this fucking grease-trap garbage of an airline’s data into your AI is gonna take you.

what a stupid fucking idea

Report: Google Buys Spirit Data for $10M

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