A tracker follows rare books to a facility that scans and destroys them

Claim

A tracking device hidden in a shipment of rare books ended its journey at a Las Vegas facility where Amazon is buying books en masse, scanning them for training data and destroying them, while Google won a bankruptcy auction for 7.5 billion airline passenger records for $10 million.

Reported metric: 7.5B records for $10M

Reporting date: 2026-08-17 (not necessarily the event date)

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