人工智能（AI）公司正在寻找破产企业的大量数据集来训练他们的模型，这不仅催生了新的商业市场，也引发了全球科技行业的数据安全危机。
Artificial intelligence (AI) companies are on the lookout for large data sets from bankrupt firms to train their models, resulting in a new commercial market and a data security crisis in the global tech sector.
美国科技巨头谷歌和AI初创公司Micro1分别出价数百万美元购买破产的Spirit航空公司的内部通信记录和乘客数据。供应商和员工担心这些敏感信息可能会被泄露。
US tech giant Google and AI startup Micro1 submitted multimillion-dollar bids to buy internal communications and passenger data from Spirit Airlines, which had filed for bankruptcy. Suppliers and workers are concerned about the potential leak of sensitive information.
根据提交给纽约破产法院的文件，Spirit航空公司在9月25日因财务困难出售了27架老旧的空中客车飞机，出售所得为6.68亿美元。
Google bid $10 million for the data set, while Micro1 is willing to pay $12.5 million. Spirit Airlines sold 27 aging Airbus aircraft for $668 million on Sept. 25 amid financial difficulties.
该数据库包含自1992年以来收集的约9750万条乘客记录、1370万个电子邮件地址、会员计划信息以及来自合作公司的资料。
Some 97.5 million passenger records collected since 1992 are on the sales list, according to court documents filed with the New York Bankruptcy Court. The database contains 13.7 million email addresses, loyalty program information and data from partner firms.
此外，数据包还包括超过17.5万名员工的人事文件和通过电子邮件及Microsoft Teams等渠道提取的150万条内部通信记录。法院预计将在周三的听证会上批准这笔交易。在申请破产的同时出售数据已成为一种全球性的商业模式。
The package also includes personnel files for more than 175,000 workers and 1.5 million internal communications extracted from various channels like email and Microsoft Teams. The court will approve the sale at a hearing expected to take place on Wednesday. Companies selling their data while filing for bankruptcy has become a global business model.
商业信息（如财务数据）不受数据保护法律的约束，整个过程主要受合同协议的约束，法律专家指出。
Commercial information like financial data is not covered by data protection laws, leaving the entire process to be governed by contractual agreements, legal experts say.