Processing costs belong to the buyer
Google and micro1 each bore all de-identification costs in the Spirit sale with no price reduction, and Mercor's company-data program states it covers extraction, anonymization and transfer with no fees or deductions.
Dated 11 Oct 2026Source checked 11 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: strong
In the source's own words
“It states that it will bear all deidentification costs under section 1(a)(iii) of the Sale Agreement with no price reduction.”
Where it was read
Chapter11Cases: The Spirit Airlines deidentified data sale, auction results, objections and the September 30 hearing, checked 13 Sep 2026
Everything read from this source (18)Archived copy, 6 Oct 2026
Mercor: Data monetization, checked 11 Oct 2026
Everything read from this source (19)Archived copy, 2 Oct 2026
Also read from the same source
- A bankrupt airline's entire corporate archive (Spirit Airlines)
- Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records (Microsoft 365 email, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, employee records), Google's opening auction bid
- Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's later bid conditioned on in-house de-identification
- Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's first-round alternative conditioned on de-identifying with its own tools
- Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's first overbid on Google's terms (third-party de-identification)
- Consumer privacy ombudsman (Lucy L. Thomson) and Google; Spirit Airlines: legal or policy, bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)
Figures it counts in
It is shown on its own, not counted into a figure.
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