Springshot says Google’s $10m Spirit deal could include its trade secrets
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 Spirit’s to sell.
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 says that collection could also contain proprietary records generated by its software. That is material CEO Doug Kreuzkamp argues could help a competitor build AI to manage airport operations.
Springshot supplied this account, and it has filed an objection in the bankruptcy proceedings.
Springshot wants a court-run forensic review to separate its intellectual property from Spirit’s business records before any transfer.
Its objection raises a question that extends beyond aviation. When software turns a customer’s activity into a dataset useful for training AI,...
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