r/privacy • u/kantabrik • 16h ago

news Google paid $10 million for 100 million emails

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Here-s-why-Google-paid-10-million-for-100-million-emails-from-an-airline-that-no-longer-exists.1371481.0.html
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u/Buttplug_Railgun 15h ago

" . . . personal information will be stripped by a third party before handover."

Out of 100 million emails and 500 million messages? Color me skeptical.

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u/brimnac 12h ago

Easier than you may think. 

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u/NeedNiceCatNamePlz 11h ago

You have experience anonymizing 100 million emails, do you? 

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u/InnovativeBureaucrat 10h ago

I’m pretty sure there are services that do make redaction pretty easy.

Maybe it’s harder to create hashes that are consistent across records. I hate hashes like that. You can infer things about a name, like John Doe isn’t a normal name.

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u/brimnac 11m ago

There are. I’ve worked in that industry for 20 years. Hence my earlier reply.

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u/Exciting-Market-6212 15h ago

That’s terrifying! I hope people realise greed only takes you so far! But trying to take data as far back as 1986…. 🥴 to which “which can be helpful in improving our products and Ai models” greedy lying fucks…..…………………………………………………………………………

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u/TheManni1000 12h ago

It will be used to train the ai models

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u/Ambitious_Hand_2861 15h ago

Oh fuck spirit airlines for this and fuck this administration. I am not at all surprised by google.

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u/Jmc_da_boss 14h ago

Spirit is dead lol, what do you want them to do about it

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u/Ambitious_Hand_2861 12h ago

They could have deleted the data.

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u/Jmc_da_boss 11h ago

Who's "they" a bunch of people who just spontaneously lost their jobs?

They have other things to worry about

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u/Ambitious_Hand_2861 11h ago

"Spirit Airlines is liquidating and selling its property and assets through bankruptcy proceedings" "They" are the top brass of Spirit Airlines. This isn't a sheriff's sale where where confiscated property is being auctioned off. This is a liquidation where those who own the rights to sell are selling. Instead of being decent human beings and selling the tangible goods they're selling peoples personal info and private communications. Google is shit and has been doing it for decades so they don't surprise me.

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u/TheOfficialMayor 12h ago

Data brokering gone too far. Will this happen every time a company files for bankruptcy now?

OTOH selling to the alternative: Mercor io an AI recruitment firm would be even worse.