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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 pass (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 89 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I'm not sure how, but buying a company for just the data should be illegal.

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  • [–] 81 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    They didn't, they bought the data, and only the data, in a bankruptcy auction.
    Everything is on sale for the highest bidder in an effort to get as much money to pay the company debt as possible. Buying the actual company would be suicide, as then you also get all that debt.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I think that’s the point, they could keep it afloat as competition for what they paid

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