WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell issued the following press release:

EDMONDS, WA - U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and senior member of the Finance Committee, joined her House and Senate colleagues in a letter to Spirit Airlines CEO, Dave Davis, and Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, urging the companies to protect the privacy of thousands of former Spirit employees.

The letter responds to the proposed $10 million sale of Spirit's internal data to Google for the purpose of training artificial intelligence systems. Court findings revealed that the proposed sale would include approximately 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, employee ...