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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)
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[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 day ago

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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