$5 million in cash per archive (opening bid)
Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records (Microsoft 365 email, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, employee records), Google's opening auction bid
Dated 14 Aug 2026Source checked 11 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: docket
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“Google's opening bid was $5 million in cash and provided for a third-party deidentification process for which the buyer would bear the cost.”
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- A bankrupt airline's entire corporate archive (Spirit Airlines)
- 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)
- micro1 and Spirit Airlines (debtor): transaction, bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)
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