Spirit’s $10 Million Data Sale to Google Clears Hurdle as Unions Win Privacy Protections

Photo Credit: A Spirit Airbus aircraft approaching an airport. Wikimedia Commons / Tomás Del Coro The union that represents Spirit Airlines flight attendants won major privacy protections for employees in the carrier’s proposed $10 million data sale to Google, which plans to use the data to enhance its AI models. The deal now removes a major hurdle for Spirit and Google, paving a path for the data sale to be approved. A hearing on the sale is scheduled for November 17, according to a 157-page court filing that was released Monday night. “Without our union, there would have been no one to speak for workers in this fire sale of their private information,” said Association of Flight Attendants president Sara Nelson in a statement. Spir