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Bankruptcy court delays Google's $10M Spirit Airlines data purchase after flight attendants seek removal of their personal info
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A bankruptcy court delayed Google's $10M purchase of Spirit Airlines' data after former flight attendants objected, seeking assurance that their confidential information would be removed from the dataset before any transfer.
The case shows that personal data embedded in a corporate dataset can become a blocking issue in an asset sale, even in bankruptcy. Teams acquiring data assets may need to account for court-mandated scrubbing of individual records before a transfer can close. Only one feed carried this story, so the details are limited.
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A bankruptcy court delayed Google's $10M purchase of Spirit Airlines' data after former flight attendants objected to the sale.
The flight attendants want assurance that their confidential information will be removed from the dataset before it changes hands.
The objection demonstrates that privacy concerns can halt a corporate data acquisition even in a bankruptcy proceeding.
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