谷歌刚刚在收购精神航空旧数据的努力中取得了胜利。法院指定的消费者隐私官员在周一的一份文件中建议批准此次出售，理由是Spirit和谷歌为解决乘客隐私风险而采取的措施。消费者隐私监察员露西·汤姆森（Lucy Thomson）表示：“双方已采取相应措施来保护精神消费者的个人数据隐私。”文件称，两家公司修改了销售中包含的个人消费者数据的范围，排除了乘客数据库，并聘请了第三方Tonic.ai对可能包含消费者个人信息的数据进行去识别，例如公司电子邮件。
Google just got a win in its effort to buy Spirit Airlines' old data. A court-appointed consumer privacy official recommended the sale be approved in a filing on Monday, citing steps taken by Spirit and Google to address risks to passenger privacy. "The parties have taken consequential steps to protect the privacy of the personal data of the Spirit consumers," Lucy Thomson, the consumer privacy ombudsman, said. The filing said the companies revised the scope of personal consumer data included in the sale, excluded passenger databases, and hired a third party, Tonic.ai, to conduct de-identification of data that could contain consumers' personal information, such as company emails. "These changes will significantly reduce the potential risk of harm to the 97 million consumers who provided their personal data to Spirit for the purpose of booking airline travel," the filing said, adding that any risk of privacy losses to consumers had been "eliminated or mitigated."
文件称：“这些变化将显着降低为预订航空旅行目的向Spirit提供个人数据的9700万消费者受到伤害的潜在风险”，并补充说，消费者的任何隐私损失风险都已“消除或减轻”。“精神航空五月份关闭后，谷歌以1000万美元的出价赢得了其数据拍卖。此次出售仍需要法院批准。谷歌表示，这些数据将有助于改进其产品和人工智能模型。代表精神号空乘人员和飞行员的工会对此次出售提出反对，称这会损害他们的隐私。代表美国航空飞行员（其中包括约700名曾在精神号工作的飞行员）的工会上周在一份文件中加入了反对意见，认为此次出售可能会阻碍航空安全。当Business Insider联系Spirit时，Spirit的代表没有提供更多评论。谷歌没有回应置评请求。该公司此前表示，个人身份信息不会包含在销售中。“谷歌不会从Spirit购买任何个人信息。在谷歌收到数据之前，这些信息要么被完全排除，要么被独立第三方取消身份，”该公司表示。
After Spirit Airlines shut down in May, Google won an auction for its data with a $10 million bid. The sale still requires court approval. Google has said the data would help improve its products and AI models. Unions representing Spirit flight attendants and pilots have filed objections to the sale, saying it would undermine their privacy. The union that represents American Airlines pilots, including some 700 who formerly worked for Spirit, joined the objection in a filing last week, arguing the sale could hinder aviation safety. A representative for Spirit did not provide additional comment when reached by Business Insider.
监察员的任命是为了评估消费者隐私的特定风险，因为美国破产法规定了数据销售中的消费者保护。监察员表示，她的审查不包括此次出售是否对员工构成任何隐私风险。律师此前告诉Business Insider，拟议的出售提醒人们，作为一名员工，您的工作数据通常不是私人的，属于公司。虽然监察员的建议有助于公司的案件，但数据出售的批准最终取决于法院。
Google did not respond to a request for comment. The company previously said that personally identifying information would not be included in the sale. "Google is not buying any personal information from Spirit. The information will either be completely excluded or will be deidentified by an independent third party before Google receives the data," the company has said. The ombudsman was appointed to evaluate risks specific to consumer privacy, as US bankruptcy law provides for consumer protections in data sales. The ombudsman said her review did not include whether the sale posed any privacy risks to employees. Lawyers previously told Business Insider that the proposed sale served as a reminder that, as an employee, your work data is generally not private and belongs to the company. While the ombudsman's recommendation helps the companies' case, approval of the data sale is ultimately up to the court.
拟议出售的听证会定于10月14日举行。周一提交的文件还称，如果法院考虑其他数据竞标--包括人工智能培训公司Mercor和Micro 1提出的竞标--将需要对消费者隐私问题进行额外审查。监察员特别表示，她需要有关今年早些时候Mercor发生的“供应链安全事件”的更多信息。
A hearing on the proposed sale is scheduled for October 14. The filing on Monday also said that if other bids for the data are considered by the court — including those placed by AI training companies Mercor and Micro1 — additional review of consumer privacy concerns would be needed. The ombudsman specifically said she'd need more information about a "supply chain security incident" that happened at Mercor earlier this year.