14 comments

  • theodpHN 37 minutes ago

    Anyone see Google's intended use of the collected data spelled out in the "Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Data" in the Spirit Privacy Agreement? Asking for 1.2 billion Spirit passengers. https://content.spirit.com/Shared/en-us/Documents/Privacy_Po...

  • jacquesm 43 minutes ago

    It's high time we get signed warrants that upon bankruptcy all data will be destroyed so it won't be used to make good either the creditors or the shareholders of the company that went under. I can't imagine any good outcome here, and change of control should result in an automatic withdrawal of any consent, no matter what assurances of privacy are given by the buyer.

  • ygjb 3 hours ago

    I would love to see a rider from the courts mandating a significant third party test by privacy researchers to see if the deidentified data can be reconstructed from models post training.

    • geoduck14 2 hours ago

      The article mentions: a 3rd party company will scrub the data amd Google will promise not to attempt to reconstruct PII from the data.

      That is good enough for me. If they violate their promise to the judge, the court can lay the hammer down on them

      • m4rtink 2 hours ago

        Good, they never break promises, so it should be fine. It also implies you can reconstruct personal information from the data. Perfect.

      • DauntingPear7 2 hours ago

        Maybe we can all be blessed with 2 quarters from a multi-year class action in a decade

      • gessha an hour ago

        Here, you dropped this: /s

  • igregoryca an hour ago

    As someone not super familiar with bankruptcy procedure: why do they auction off exclusive access to the data? Couldn't they make more money by, say, taking the top N offers, where N is "small" (e.g., ≤5)? Or does that depress the price too much?

  • robocat 3 hours ago

    Using data from failed businesses as training data: what could go wrong?

    • kevmo314 an hour ago

      Maybe we can help businesses fail faster

  • geetee 3 hours ago

    Ah, rare data hunters.

  • emsign 34 minutes ago

    So Google is training AI to run businesses that go bankrupt now? That's not very smart.

  • fnord77 30 minutes ago

    gemini to get more profane