精神航空（Spirit Airlines）破产案中的隐私官员已建议批准将精神航空的去标识化数据出售给谷歌。在10月5日提交的一份报告中，申诉专员露西·汤姆森（Lucy Thomson）表示，精神航空和谷歌已将乘客数据库排除在交易之外。
The privacy official in Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy has recommended approval of the sale of deidentified Spirit Airlines data to Google. In a report filed on 5 October, ombudsman Lucy Thomson said Spirit and Google had taken passenger databases out of the deal.
据Business Insider报道，谷歌以1000万美元的出价赢得拍卖。关于此次出售的听证会定于10月14日举行。法院拥有最终决定权。
Google won the auction with a $10m bid, Business Insider reported. A hearing on the sale is scheduled for 14 October. The court has the final say.
这笔交易是如何达成的 精神航空于5月2日停飞。谷歌于8月赢得数据拍卖，Mercor为备选竞标者。
How the sale got here Spirit stopped flying on 2 May. Google won the data auction in August, with Mercor as the alternate bidder.
9月3日，AI训练公司micro1提交了竞标通知。汤姆森于9月8日向法院提交了第一份报告。精神航空的空乘人员和飞行员工会反对此次出售，软件制造商Springshot也持反对意见。据Business Insider报道，美国航空飞行员工会上周也加入了反对行列。
On 3 September, AI training company micro1 filed notice of a competing bid. Thomson filed her first report to the court on 8 September. Unions for Spirit’s flight attendants and pilots have objected to the sale, as has software maker Springshot. The union for American Airlines pilots joined them last week, Business Insider reported.
有何变化 新报告称，精神航空和谷歌已同意将预订和交易记录、退款、机上购买及WiFi销售排除在交易之外。报告称，这些数据“以任何形式”都不会到达谷歌手中。此次出售仍包括公司电子邮件，其中可能包含乘客的个人详细信息。
What changed Spirit and Google have agreed to exclude booking and transaction records, refunds, inflight purchases and WiFi sales, the new report says. That data will not reach Google “in any form”, the report says. The sale still includes corporate email, which may hold passengers’ personal details.
根据报告，精神航空已聘请Tonic.ai对这些非结构化数据进行去标识化处理。代理机构必须在每次数据传输前向法院提交认证文件。汤姆森要求该认证文件同时说明发现并删除了多少乘客的详细信息。
Spirit has hired Tonic.ai to deidentify that unstructured data, according to the report. The agent must file a certification with the court before every transfer. Thomson asked that it also state how many passengers’ details it found and removed.
买方必须公开承诺不会尝试重新识别这些数据。除非接收方作出同样的承诺，否则买方也不得将数据转交他人。报告称，这将降低约9700万曾在精神航空预订机票的乘客所面临的风险：“消费者可能遭受的隐私损失或成本已被消除或减轻。”消费者隐私监察员露西·汤姆森向法院提交的报告指出。报告未涵盖的内容：汤姆森并未评估此次出售是否会对Spirit的员工或第三方构成风险。
The buyer must publicly commit not to try to reidentify the data. It also may not pass it on unless the recipient makes the same commitment. The report says this cuts the risk to the 97 million people who booked with Spirit: “The potential privacy losses or costs to consumers have been eliminated or mitigated.”Lucy Thomson, consumer privacy ombudsman, report to the court What the report does not cover Thomson did not assess whether the sale poses risks to Spirit’s employees or third parties.
如果法院转而考虑Mercor，她希望调查该公司今年早些时候发生的一起安全事件。她还希望审查micro1自行对数据进行去标识化的计划，而非使用第三方机构。
If the court considers Mercor instead, she wants to look into a security incident at the company earlier this year. She also wants to review micro1’s plan to deidentify the data itself rather than use an independent party.
谷歌表示，它并未从Spirit处购买任何个人信息。该公司称，这些数据将有助于改进其产品和人工智能模型。谷歌未回应《商业内幕》就这份报告提出的置评请求。
Google has said it is not buying any personal information from Spirit. It said the data would help improve its products and its AI models. Google did not respond to Business Insider’s request for comment on the report.