Spirit Airlines Wants to Sell Its Data to Google. Former Flight Attendants Are Freaked Out

A bankrupt airline is seeking court approval to sell decades of employee data to an AI company for millions of dollars. A labor union representing flight attendants has filed a legal objection, arguing that the data contains deeply sensitive personal and medical information that employees never agreed would be used to train AI systems. The dispute highlights a gap in current laws, which protect consumer data better than worker data, and marks the first major public clash between unions and companies over selling employee information for AI training purposes. The outcome could set an important precedent for how employee data is handled as companies increasingly seek information to develop AI products.