Topic: Spirit Airlines bankruptcy

Spirit Airlines' most valuable asset at auction was not its planes. It was its data. Google has won the bidding for the bankrupt carrier's massive trove of operational and customer records with a $10 million offer, snapping up hundreds of millions of emails, messages, call recordings and flight records to train AI models for aviation applications. The sale is nearly finalized in the US. In Europe, it is setting off alarms about privacy law and who controls data once a company dies.