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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days ago

Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized pass

www.tomshardware.com

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Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized pass

www.tomshardware.com

return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days ago
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Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized passenger records
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This treasure trove of data came at a relatively affordable $10 million.
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    “Anonymized”

    Do you know how easy it is to deanonimize it? Clearly the regulators and politicians don’t care.

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      Especially if you’re Google. Matching “anonymous” travel activity to their Google Maps, login, Chrome, and Gmail history should be pretty trivial with a high success rate.

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      To them it’s a feature, not a bug.

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    Everyone loses here. It’s no longer possible to trust any organisation with your data, because no matter what they say or do, they have no control over what will happen to it if they ever become insolvent.

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    Certainly only good things coming from this news.

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    Shouldn’t something like that be illegal? The data-sharing authorization certainly applied only to the airline.

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      Sue them.

      I mean, should if you can defend your rights. Anyway, posted from Moscow, Russia, so I’m stopping.

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      “something something transferrable something something”

      • Samsy@lemmy.ml
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        Ah I forgot this isn’t EU.

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    Weird to think there was data Google didn’t already have.

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    Disgusting.

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    “anonymized”

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    Fudge! I rode Spirit once and it was roughly 10 yrs ago. Yall think they got my info??

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