Photo Credit: A Spirit Airlines Airbus A320 in Los Angeles. Vincenzo Pace
Spirit says it is working with a third-party to scrub any personal information from the data before the transaction is approved.
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Spirit Airlines' $10 million data sale to Google is facing objections over whether it adequately protects the privacy of the airline's former employees.
Under the terms of the deal, Google would receive troves of business and software data, including 3.4 million payroll records, 100 million emails, 80,000 email accounts, and employee data dating back to 1986. Google is also set to receive access to Spirit’s pricing models, booking curves, flight behavior data, in-flight purchase and Wi-Fi records, refund histories, and travel package information.
The deal did not include access to customer data of 97.5 million passengers or 52.4 million members of Spirit’s loyalty program.
A hearing on the transaction was supposed to take place August 18,
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