Your Former Employer Is Selling Your Slacks and Emails to Train AI
TL;DR
Even when a former employer goes bankrupt, your data does not belong to you. Bankruptcy administrators and asset firms increasingly sell old Slack workspaces and email archives to AI vendors for model training. Employees rarely get notified and have almost no recourse. The story highlights how far the trade in training data has pushed beyond what most people expect.
Nauti's Take
There is a real opportunity here to force clearer rules: when AI training datasets start flowing out of bankruptcy estates, lawmakers will finally have to define what happens to employee data after a company shuts down. The risk is that until then, administrators sell Slack histories and inboxes essentially unchecked, and affected employees have no leverage at all.
Anyone using cloud tools at work should now assume that this content can end up as training data later on.
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