Google picked and paid for the firm anonymising the Spirit Airlines data
Google has agreed to pay $10mn for what a dead airline knew. A judge considers the sale on Wednesday morning. Reuters reported the price on Monday.
Every account of the deal rests on one word. The data is deidentified, so nobody need worry.
The Spirit Airlines data sale agreement, filed with the bankruptcy court on 14 August, says three things about that process which have gone unreported. Read together they change what the word is worth.
Google picks the firm that does the scrubbing
Coverage has described an independent third party cleaning the data before Google receives it. The contract is more specific.
Spirit must deliver the material to one or more third parties “acceptable to or designated by Buyer”. Google chooses the agent.
Google also pays. The agreement makes the buyer solely responsible for every cost of deidentification, and states that those costs do not reduce the purchase price....
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