Springshot says Googles $10m Spirit deal could include its trade secrets
News Source : The Next Web
News Summary
- Google won the bankruptcy auction with a $10 million bid for a vast archive.
- It includes roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages and collaboration records, plus spreadsheets, code and operational data.
- Springshot wants a court-run forensic review to separate its intellectual property from Spirit’s business records before any transfer.
- Google has publicly acknowledged its interest in the data for its products and AI models.
- The hearing has been rescheduled several times and is now slated for September 30.
A proposed sale of Spirit Airlines data to Google has drawn an objection from aviation software company Springshot, which says some of the assets may not be Spirits to sell.
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