$5.2 million per archive (auction overbid)
Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's first overbid on Google's terms (third-party de-identification)
Dated 14 Aug 2026Source checked 11 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: docket
In the source's own words
“Mercor.io submitted the first overbid, offering either $5.2 million using Google's form bill of sale or $7 million if the terms allowed it to complete the deidentification process with its own tools.”
Where it was read
Also read from the same source
- A bankrupt airline's entire corporate archive (Spirit Airlines)
- Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records (Microsoft 365 email, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, employee records), Google's opening auction bid
- Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's later bid conditioned on in-house de-identification
- Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's first-round alternative conditioned on de-identifying with its own tools
- Consumer privacy ombudsman (Lucy L. Thomson) and Google; Spirit Airlines: legal or policy, bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)
- micro1 and Spirit Airlines (debtor): transaction, bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)
What it is about
Figures it counts in
- 35% moreHow much more one bidder offered for the same records on different de-identification terms
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