August 20, 2026
Google’s Bid to Buy Spirit Airlines’ Data Met With Pushback From Former Flight Attendants
Monique Jilesen was interviewed by Global News about the privacy risks in Google’s bid to purchase Spirit Airlines’ internal business data, including employee emails and Teams chats, to help train its AI models. She explains why a sale like this may not be approved in Canada unless the data is fully scrubbed of anything that could identify individual employees. Even then, she would expect a fight over approval.
