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> No, that's a completely non-substantiative quote from an attorney for one side that contains the implicit assumption that Uber really does have the documents
by CalChris 10y ago
> No, that's a completely non-substantiative quote from an attorney for one side that contains the implicit assumption that Uber really does have the documents
Implicit assumption? The first paragraph of the TechCrunch article says:
Uber admitted today that it had found one of the documents Waymo alleges was stolen by a former employee — who left its self-driving car effort to join Uber’s — on the employee’s personal computer.
- maverick_iceman 10y agoHow can they access an employee's personal computer?
- maxerickson 10y agoBy asking.
- rhino369 10y agoThey don't even have to access it. They just have to ask for the documents.
- dragonwriter 10y ago"You will provide us this, or you will be an ex-employee."
- komali2 10y agoUntil the facts of the case come out, don't fall into the dangerous dark hole of fully buying into either story. The other day I booted my old galaxy s3 to put a new ROM on it and turn it into a dashcam. I found on it that google drive had offline backed-up some documents from a company I had worked at several years ago, and no longer did. Should I be sued for trade secret theft?
- CalChris 10y agoUber admitted today
- vuln 10y agoI don't find this to be the same. What you did could be defended easily by saying it was an accident and you behavior would have been nonmalicious. You didn't purposely back up some old files, start a new company with the same exact tech from those said files then sell the new company 2 months later for a cool 680mill. If you did that then yes your old employ would definitely have a case against you. If your story is as described they company would lose.
- johnmaguire2013 10y agoExcept this wasn't found on Levandowski's machine (the guy who sold Octo.)
- HaloZero 10y agoThis was found on another person's laptop who helped found Otto though.
- life_on_mars2 10y agoIf enough engineers leave company A and join company B and all are working in the same field, I would expect at least some of those employees to have documents from their previous employer, even if only accidentally. The fact that they've only found one document and only on the personal laptop of a single employee seems to suggest that they actually did a good job in due diligence. Does anyone know how many former Waymo engineers now work at Uber?
- komali2 10y agoWhy's this guy being downvoted? In an era of "but her emails" are we really surprised that an employee's phone could have hundreds of for example corporate emails leftover, if not other documents depending on what tech they use.
- muro 10y agoWhat does "personal computer" mean? PC provided by the employer to he individual, or their private, not related to work, computer?
- Groxx 10y agoIt's worth pointing out that the "former employee" in that quote was not Levandowski.