Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies
By Ella Chakarian
Published on April 17, 2026.
According to a report by Forbes, defunct companies are selling their digital footprints to AI companies as training data. The CEO of now-defunct software company cielo24, Shanna Johnson, has reportedly sold every Slack message, internal email and Jira ticket for hundreds of thousands of dollars. However, there are real concerns about personal data privacy, as these communications can contain personal information.
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