Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit’s looming data sale to Google
"Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/panic-builds-over-bankrupt-spirits-looming-data-sale-to-google/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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@arstechnica Great, so now if my service goes bankrupt, an outlaw monopoly will get my data. Ughhh.
@arstechnica When we hand personal data to a bank, platform, or shop, there's an implicit understanding: use is limited to that purpose. Yet almost every such handoff is followed by a spam surge — already a purpose-limitation problem in practice. So how legal, under basic data rights, is transferring that same data as the result of a bankruptcy auction — a purpose nobody ever consented to?