Lawmakers raise alarm at Google plan to acquire Spirit Airlines data for AI models

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    "title": "Lawmakers raise alarm at Google plan to acquire Spirit Airlines data for AI models - KLSE Screener",
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    "excerpt": "WASHINGTON: More than 120 US lawmakers raised concerns on Thursday about a deal for Alphabet's Google unit to acquire defunct carrier Spirit Airlines' internal data for US$10 million to train artificial intelligence systems. As part of Spirit's closure and asset liquidation, Google won an auction in August for data from spreadsheets and calendars, as well as marketing, productivity and operations data. Spirit Airlines halted operations in May. A privacy ombudsman on Monday recommended that a US bankruptcy judge approve the deal at an Oct 14 hearing, after excluding passenger personal information from 97 million Spirit customers. The lawmakers, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Steven Horsford, said the sale would include 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages and other employee records. The lawmakers asked the company to \"exclude employee information from the transaction to the greatest extent possible\". \"Innovation should not come at the expense of workers' privacy or the confidentiality of information they were required to provide as a condition of employment,\" the lawmakers said. \"The unprecedented scale and sophistication of modern artificial intelligence make it particularly important that privacy protections keep pace with the technology.\" Google said it did not want to acquire personal information. \"We are not looking to buy any...",
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