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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026

Today, those trustees announced that *they had sold all of Spirit's employees' data to Google*, for use in AI training: www.axios.com/2026/08/17/g... 42/

axios.com

Google pays $10M for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents

The tech giant plans to use the data to improve its AI models.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026

Every email, every memo, every calendar entry. *Oceans* of sensitive, personal information, all to be shoveled directly into the bottomless maw of Google's AI training systems. 43/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026

This training data includes messages between colleagues and with outside parties about workers' romantic lives, their health, their family situations. These workers' most private lives will end up as fodder for a Google chatbot. 44/

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