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Google Aims To Boost AI With Purchase Of Spirit Airlines Data

What happens to decades of accumulated data when the company that collected it disappears? Google is paying $10 million for a vast repository from collapsed Spirit Airlines to improve its products and AI models. The assets include 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams records, billions of transaction records, and more than 175,000 employee records dating back to 1986. Google says personal information will be excluded and the data stripped of personally identifiable information before delivery. Even so, the sale highlights a growing privacy question: data collected for everyday business can outlive its original purpose and become a valuable AI-training asset.

news.bloomberglaw.com

Data Repurposing Data Ownership Data Retention AI Training Data

Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content To Train Its AI - Unless You Opt Out

Twitch creators now have a switch to stop their posts, streams, and videos from being used to train Amazon’s generative AI models. The catch: AI training is enabled by default, and Twitch has not clarified when it began using creator content this way. More than 16,000 creators have opposed the practice, while a Twitch executive acknowledged that an opt-in approach would attract little participation. Disabling the setting also doesn’t prevent Twitch and Amazon from using content for other AI-powered purposes, highlighting how consent, transparency, and meaningful control over personal and creative data remain unresolved in the AI era.

wired.com

Data Control Creator Privacy Data Transparency

Meta Agrees To Pay $18 Billion To Settle US Lawsuits Over Children's Social Media Addiction

Stricter rules are coming for teenage Facebook and Instagram users, including two-hour daily limits and overnight restrictions. Yet the agreement leaves a core part of Meta’s data-driven business largely untouched: personalized recommendations and targeted advertising can continue. Privacy claims also played a significant role, with 29 states alleging the company knowingly collected children’s personal data without parental consent and used it to train generative AI. Another $459 million resolves claims linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The agreement could influence how other platforms handle young users and their data.

reuters.com

Child Privacy Data Collection Targeted Advertising Privacy Enforcement
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