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Google agrees to addition privacy protections in Spirit Airlines data sale

Reuters

Nov 10 (Reuters) - Alphabet's ‌Google has agreed to additional privacy ​protections ‌from the acquisition of employees ‌data from defunct Spirit Airlines, a union representing ‌employees said Tuesday.

The agreement clears the way next week for approval of Google's $10 ⁠million deal to acquire ‌Spirit data to ⁠train AI models. The union ​said it had won a more rigorous ​de-identification process than previously ​planned ‌and significant employee data will ​be excluded from ⁠the sale including ‌health and medical ​information.

As ​part of Spirit's closure and asset liquidation, Google won an auction in August for ‌data from emails, spreadsheets and calendars as well ‌as ​for marketing, productivity and operations.

Spirit Airlines halted operations in May.

(Reporting by David Shepardson, ‌Editing by Franklin Paul)

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