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Spirit Airlines (bankruptcy estate) to Google: Purchase of de-identified internal business data (employee emails, Teams messages, spreadsheets, calendars, marketing and operations data; passenger records excluded) for product development and AI training. Still pending as of 14 Oct 2026: the consumer privacy ombudsman recommended approval on 5 Oct, and on 9 Oct the sale hearing was adjourned again, to 6 Nov 2026 (docket summary by Stretto, In re Spirit Aviation Holdings, Bankr. S.D.N.Y.). On 8 Oct about 120 members of Congress asked Spirit and Google to pause the sale over employee data. Mercor is the alternate bidder at $7.5 million; micro1 filed a notice of intent to submit a competing bid (ECF 1556), reported at $12.5 million, though the 14 Oct docket summary says the notice states no amount.	Licensing deal	$10 million winning bid at the 14 Aug 2026 auction; not yet approved: the sale hearing…	14 Aug 2026

Spirit Airlines (bankruptcy estate) to Google: Purchase of de-identified internal business data (employee emails, Teams messages, spreadsheets, calendars, marketing and operations data; passenger records excluded) for product development and AI training. Still pending as of 14 Oct 2026: the consumer privacy ombudsman recommended approval on 5 Oct, and on 9 Oct the sale hearing was adjourned again, to 6 Nov 2026 (docket summary by Stretto, In re Spirit Aviation Holdings, Bankr. S.D.N.Y.). On 8 Oct about 120 members of Congress asked Spirit and Google to pause the sale over employee data. Mercor is the alternate bidder at $7.5 million; micro1 filed a notice of intent to submit a competing bid (ECF 1556), reported at $12.5 million, though the 14 Oct docket summary says the notice states no amount.
Kind
Licensing deal
As stated
$10 million winning bid at the 14 Aug 2026 auction; not yet approved: the sale hearing…
Dated
14 Aug 2026

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