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Uber Threatens To Fire Engineer Accused of Stealing Trade Secrets From Waymo (gizmodo.com)
Uber's general counsel Salle Yoo has warned Anthony Levandowski that if he doesn't return the files he's accused of stealing from Google's self-driving car unit and using them to develop similar technology at Uber, or open deny taking them, he could be fired. Gizmodo reports: Uber's general counsel Salle Yoo warned Levandowski in a letter sent Monday and made public last night that, if he didn't return the stolen files or openly deny taking them, he could be fired. The letter is a result of a court order issued Monday, and Levandowski has until the end of the month to comply. "We understand that this letter requires you to turn over information wherever located, including but not limited to, your personal devices, and to waive any Fifth Amendment protection you may have," Yoo wrote. "While we have respected your personal liberties, it is our view that the Court's Order requires us to make these demands of you." Despite the allegations against him, Levandowski's job at Uber has been protected so far by his reputation as a rising star in the self-driving industry and his close friendship with CEO Travis Kalanick, who called Levandowski his brother from another mother. However, Yoo's letter hints that the tide at Uber may be turning against Levandowsk -- in addition to demanding he return Waymo's documents, Yoo also asks Levandowski to return any Uber files he may have and to only use Uber-issued devices for work, where his actions will be monitored. "If you have not fully complied with our prior request to return all Uber-owned documents in your possession, custody, or control, you must immediately return all such documents to us," Yoo wrote.
Oh, that's right, he gave them to Uber, and now they're throwing him under the bus.
Don't steal for your employer, they will not go to bat for you.
He already got the $250-or-so millions in Uber stock...
We understand that this letter requires you to turn over information wherever located, including but not limited to, your personal devices, and to waive any Fifth Amendment protection you may have,
Last I checked a Judge CANNOT issue an Order demanding someone to Waive a constitutional right.
Waiving a constitutional right can be offered as a voluntary option for a settlement, not as an Involuntary requirement demanded by a judicial order.
There's no way he won't *also* be fired for "stealing" from Uber by symbolically giving the files back (because they were all just copies) to "a rival company" either.
The whole point of this little PR stunt is to pretend that only the one engineer was at fault for any of this, and no one else ever benefited.
Your tiny penis is also absurd!!!!
He wrote: "or open deny taking them"
In the quoted bit it's in actual English, like with an adverb and shit: "or openly deny taking them"
Now any person with an IQ greater than his pant size would have simply copied & pasted it. So he either hasn't worked how to do that, or he thought there was an error there and "corrected" it.
The fact that it's pointless, lame, and bad style to repeat (almost) yourself like that is another issue for another time.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Mostly slashdot editors have been outsourced to Kentucky and Alabama.
They int thet gerd.
Fucking hell, people from Barnsley write better.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Like the square root of two?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Threatened? Makes you think that something is really serious here. Even government contractors will typically summarily terminate people who pull an ethical lapse of this scope with client regulations or civil law.
The point of "returning" them is to prove what the party of the second took from the party of the first. They're not returned because the party of the first no longer has them, but to demonstrate what the party of the second took from the party of the first, so that the party of the second is not able to use what was taken. I expect that if Google/Alphabet/Waymo has evidence of what was accessed then they have a good case for denying Uber the ability to use the contents of those, and to block doing any development by anyone that has had access to that material.
I also expect that until Uber "returns" the content to essentially come-clean, Uber won't be allowed to do any self-driving development of any kind, and if they are discovered to have done so they'll find themselves facing even stronger legal problems.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Wow, smart comment. You must be proud.
You ever been to Doncaster?
If these two assholes can find each other I guess the saying is true, there really is someone out there for everyone.
Do not talk about Donald that what. His hands are uge!!! Uge!!!! As big as Gyna!
How is "returning" those files going to guarantee he doesn't use them in the future ? I mean even if he gives back an archive he may have kept a copy somewhere else, there is no way to enforce that.
Y'all have sumpin agin the South?