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Google compra todos los datos de Spirit Airlines para alimentar sus modelos de IA

¿Alguna vez volaste con Spirit Airlines? ¿O trabajaste allí? ¿O enviaste un correo electrónico a alguien que trabajaba allí? Entonces tu información pronto alimentará el modelo de inteligencia artificial de Google.

La aerolínea de bajo costo cesó todas sus operaciones en mayo y, desde entonces, ha estado vendiendo sus activos restantes a través del proceso de bancarrota. Si bien la mayor parte son aviones, equipos e inmuebles, también hay otros activos valiosos.

El lunes por la noche se reveló que la compañía acordó vender sus datos a Google por 10 millones de dólares. Esto incluye correos electrónicos y comunicaciones internas, hojas de cálculo, transacciones con el público, incluyendo reservas e información de viajero frecuente, así como información de recursos humanos sobre sus empleados.

Según la documentación judicial, los datos se han anonimizado, eliminando cualquier información que permita identificar a las personas. Aun así, se trata de una enorme cantidad de información útil.

“Adquirimos parte de un conjunto de datos empresariales de Spirit Airlines, que puede ser útil para mejorar nuestros productos y modelos de IA”, declaró un portavoz de Google a CNN, que confirmó que no recibirá ninguna información personal como parte de la compra.

Numerosas aerolíneas han declarado que están utilizando cada vez más la IA para fijar tarifas y horarios de forma más eficiente. Otra empresa de IA, Mercor.io, presentó la segunda oferta más alta, de 7,5 millones de dólares, por los datos de Spirit. El juez del tribunal de quiebras, Sean Lane, dictaminará sobre la venta de los datos en una audiencia el miércoles.

La venta es inusual, aunque las quiebras de aerolíneas no lo sean. La mayoría de las aerolíneas en quiebra son adquiridas en su totalidad, incluyendo sus datos, por otra aerolínea que los integra en sus operaciones. Sin embargo, Spirit fue la primera aerolínea estadounidense importante en 25 años que se vio obligada a cesar sus operaciones por completo, en lugar de ser vendida a otra aerolínea.

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Justice Department to send a record 1,000 monitors to midterm polling places

▶ Watch Video: CBS News political panel on trends being seen so far in midterm elections Washington — The Justice Department is planning to deploy a record 1,000 federal monitors to polling places throughout the U.S. for the midterm elections, the head of the department's Civil Rights Division said this week.Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, made the announcement in remarks to Bloomberg on Monday.The Civil Rights Division has long sent out monitors to polling places throughout the country to ensure compliance with the federal Voting Rights Act. That law prohibits discrimination in voting and ensures voters are not intimidated or otherwise prevented from casting a ballot on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability or another protected class.Historically, the Justice Department's own civil rights attorneys have served as monitors, and usually it sends out dozens of staff to a variety of polling places. In the 2024 general election, for instance, the department monitored compliance with federal voting rights laws in 86 jurisdictions across 27 states.The Civil Rights Division under the Trump administration, however, has been largely gutted. More than 70% of its career staff took early retirement or resigned amid concerns about changes to its mission under Dhillon's leadership. Although she has since recruited more attorneys, it remains understaffed.In order to reach 1,000 monitors for the upcoming election, a DOJ spokesperson told CBS News that the department will seek federal employees to volunteer for the effort. A department official added that the recruitment will target DOJ employees, including people in U.S. Attorney's Offices throughout the country.A full list of locations is expected to be made public once the primaries are concluded. On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced it was sending monitors to polling places for primary elections in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and Laramie County, Wyoming.While it is longstanding practice for the DOJ to send monitors to polling places, some states are more suspicious this year, given the 31 lawsuits the Civil Rights Division has filed seeking states' unredacted voter data. The division has said it wants to ensure each state's rolls are clean, and that noncitizens are not registered. The states argue the suits are an effort to cast doubt on the integrity of the election process itself. The government has not prevailed in a single lawsuit so far, with judges blocking the requests for data in 23 cases to date.The Department of Homeland Security, meanwhile, wants to use the voter information to carry out criminal and immigration enforcement.President Trump, for his part, has repeatedly refused to acknowledge that he lost the 2020 election, and claimed without evidence that it was stolen. The FBI has since launched a number of criminal investigations related to the 2020 election results, including in Fulton County, Georgia, and in Arizona.Recently, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes filed a public records request in the hopes of learning why DOJ was deploying monitors in three counties to monitor its primary election.
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