@chetwisniewski@securitycafe.ca El Reg reports "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" and yeah, they don't buy it either "The Register awaits evidence of the inevitable SNAFUs that mean some personal info appears as the result of a future prompt, or search" https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auction-because-ai/5288962