Comment by embedding-shape
1 day ago
Ah, but Google promised to remove PII they found in this deidentified dataset, so worry not.
> If you’ve flown Spirit and worry that Google will soon know about a testy conversation you had with the airline’s call center, you’re being told not to worry. The court filing says the data was deidentified before being put on sale and Google has promised to scrub any PII it finds in the trove.
Honestly would trust Google more than any other entity to de-identify the data properly.
With their army of lawyers? Absolutely not. Guarantee you they’ve already prepped a response along the lines of “someone else was supposed to take care of that before selling it to us we can’t be held accountable for it.”
> Ah, but Google promised to remove PII they found in this deidentified dataset, so worry not.
… and even if someone can prove that they didn't, the only consequences will be a teeny-tiny slap on the wrists.
This kind of stuff needs to come with promises to pay the P in the PII big bucks if the I is indeed I.
> even if someone can prove that they didn't
Only a whistle-blower could, it'll all be locked down as trade secrets because it's (allegedly) giving their AI the edge over the competition.
Unfortunately the whistle-blower will never work in big tech again if they do so I don't see it happening.
Not that it really matters, data breaches are happening more then ever with no consequences and data brokers are legal companies.
I basically agree, but I'd also say: Every Gmail user has already accepted such a promise as sufficient.
I wouldn't be surprised if Gmail data has far more access restrictions internally at Google than this auction bought dump.
But the Spirit customers may not have a Gmail or even a Google account? I personally don't.
Sure, a Spirit customer with no Gmail account can absolutely complain and/or be wary of this. I didn't mean what I wrote as a complete counterargument -- just trying to indicate the "scale" of the privacy issue here, which is that it's something that many people already tacitly accept.
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Ah, trust me bro :)