Meta braces for federal child privacy trial in California

Spirit Airlines may have gone bankrupt, but its data lives on. 

Google has reportedly purchased Spirit’s trove of operational and customer data as part of the carrier’s bankruptcy wind-down, scooping up years of booking patterns, pricing behavior, and customer service logs to help train its AI. 

Almost ironically, the budget airline famous for charging extra for literally everything—carry-ons, seat selection, printing your boarding pass at the counter—is now cashing in on the one thing it never charged for, the data it collected watching customers try to avoid those fees.

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Meta braces for "astronomical" trial in California

Opening arguments begin Tuesday in a federal trial where a coalition of 29 state attorneys general, co-led by California AG Rob Bonta, accuse Meta of designing Instagram and Facebook to be addictive to children and violating child-privacy laws. New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez, who recently won a separate case against Meta in his state that resulted in nearly $1 billion in damages, told CNBC the outcome of the........

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