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Uber Must Provide Waymo With Data Regarding Its Otto Acquisition, Rules Court (thetechportal.com)
An appeals court today has ruled that Anthony Levandowski, the Uber executive accused of taking documents from Google's Waymo, can't use the Fifth Amendment to prevent Uber from turning over documents in the case. "The court has now directed Uber to provide data associated with its Otto acquisition to Waymo," reports The Tech Portal. From the report: Following the case, Levandowski invoked the fifth amendment, so as to prevent any other information which could implicate him from coming to the surface. Meanwhile, Waymo has been claiming that Levandowski and Uber signed an agreement with each other just a few days after the former quit his job at Google. The company has also asked Uber to provide it with a log containing details of the cab aggregator's legal involvement with Levandowski. Levandowski has been opposing the motion, stating that it would violate his fifth amendment. However, a new court ruling has quashed these hopes. With this ruling, Waymo can technically also request Uber for a copy of the due diligence report. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said: "Mr. Levandowski argues that he is entitled to relief under the Fifth Amendment because production of the unredacted privilege log could potentially incriminate him. We are not persuaded that the district court erred in its ruling requiring defendants to produce an unredacted privilege log."
That is some first-class word salad right there.
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Yeah, but if you go to Walmart you can buy your own greens and make a better salad.
Just make sure you don't touch the receipt.
"Trump!!", the new Godwin.
Kalanik is a bully who should be in jail. The $70bn valuation completely out of line with reality; it's bigger than the entire industry it targets. Even if it's 100% successful, it won't provide an ROI. And, they've basically got no competitive advantage that can't be easily replicated.
Get away from Uber and any businesses in a relationship with Uber. It'll be gone in 2020.
Idiot. The fifth amendment only covers being forced to testify against yourself. It doesn't cover being forced to produce documents that will incriminate you (otherwise known as 'discoverable evidence'). Done something criminal and written it down somewhere and shared it around with coconspirators? Well that was pretty fucking stupid of you, wasn't it?
We believe Uber should not have to provide this information. We already uninstalled the app, so any more information would be a violation of our privacy. ...Ooops...
Google sues Uber
Uber claims that they don't have the stolen documents, this other guy has them
It's a novel, but apparently unsuccessful, legal strategy.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said: "Mr. Levandowski argues that he is entitled to relief under the Fifth Amendment because production of the unredacted privilege log could potentially incriminate him.
The privilege log is a DOCUMENT.
Since when did the 5TH Amendment apply to Documents or other Tangible written evidence, Ever?
As far as I know, if you commit a crime and write something about it in your private diary, then Yes, the police ARE allowed to use it against you, and you can be prosecuted in court based on this evidence. Hell..... they can even use it against you if you make a note about it on your smartphone and secure it with a passcode. Courts have ordered people to hand over their passcodes.
So why would the guys at Uber think this would go any differently than the well-established standard that once a piece of information is made into a tangible form, whether written to a piece of paper, Or saved to a hard drive, the 5th amendment does not protect the medium from seizure, analysis, and compulsory decryption if necessary to access the info, And the 5th amendment no longer protects the information once recorded?
fucking itself over as of late but I didn't realize it had moved on to fucking itself over using a baseball bat with rusty nails sticking out of it.
Consider this: what if Levandowski is conspiring with Google to fuck over Uber? Waymo is pretty much dead. Everyone else -- Uber, Tesla, GM, Ford, even fucking Chrysler -- is ahead of them. So here's the real timeline:
Uber approaches Levandowski about laundering some documents. Levandowski talks to Larry Page about it (not enough attention is being paid to this conversation!) and they agree to fuck over Uber by "stealing" garbage research. Uber signs an agreement with Levandowski promising buy his company -- and cover all personal legal fees -- before he even quits google. He quits google, starts Otto, and Uber buys them up in a couple months. A couple months later, Google sues. Levandowski is now doing everything possible to make Uber lose this lawsuit.
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You can't use the 5th amendment to suppress evidence. It's just to keep you from having to testify against yourself.
Uber turning over documents is not him testifying against himself. It's just evidence discovery.
duh
what you're saying is, Uber must provide WayMo data than it already has?