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Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI (www.theregister.com)
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[–] bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In the early 2000s some of us who were Way Too Online learned this lesson: A major pillar of internet security, a company whose entire reason for existing was to protect its customers' personal information, went bankrupt and sold all its customer data to the highest (or possibly just first) bidder.

No matter how "trustworthy" the company, no matter what their Terms and Conditions say, no matter how "solid" their "values," everyone sells your data when they go bankrupt.

(And most of them will do it long before then)