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Uber Trained Employees on How To 'Impede, Obstruct or Influence' Ongoing Legal Investigations, Ex-employee Says (cnbc.com)
From a report on CNBC: Uber faced fresh allegations on Tuesday that it deliberately took steps to keep " unlawful schemes from seeing the light of day." Hours of testimony on Tuesday centered around a letter from a former Uber security analyst's attorney to an Uber lawyer. The former analyst, Richard Jacobs, said in the letter there was a directive for Uber employees to use disappearing chat apps like Wickr, and that Uber sent employees to Pittsburgh (where it's developing its autonomous vehicles) to "educate" them on how to prevent "Uber's unlawful schemes from seeing the light of day." He reportedly made other bombshell allegations in the letter, including that employees at Uber were trained to "impede" ongoing investigations, multiple media outlets reported.
they need some contempt of court a few days in county will fix them.
The company needs dissolution, the principals arrested and all assets seized.
Corporatism != Free Market
Regardless how you look at Uber they are criminals, they are screwing employees, they are screwing customers, they are screwing authorities and more!
I will never use Uber even if they are the last company on Earth.
See subject.
Other companies do this, just not in so many words. Aside from the nudging and winking policies, some things are done under overt, yet bogus reasons. My company now deletes virtually all email after 3 months, to better manage storage resources and adhere to best practices for retention.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
I'm not a fan of Uber as a company. They've done a lot of shady crap. But this sounds like it could also be normal corporate "speaking with care" training. Every company I've ever worked for has told me to be cautious with communicating about legally-sensitive topics in writing (including email and chat systems that archive conversations). Said training usually includes information about how to specify that written communication is attorney-client privileged, too, which makes it non-discoverable in most legal proceedings, plus a recommendation that if you're in doubt, you should hold your conversation in person or over the phone (or video conference).
This is just normal stuff. Sure, it could be used to avoid leaving documentary evidence of illegal dealings, but that's not its intent. Its intent is to avoid generating large amounts of documentation that has to be reviewed in discovery, and which could be exploited by opposing counsel by mischaracterizing it or taking it out of context. For individual employees, it also tends to keep them out of the line of fire of subpoenas. If you mentioned a topic in discoverable communications, you're likely to get subpoenaed to give a deposition.
It should be noted that if you're actually doing something illegal, and if your attorney is unethical enough to advise you on how to get away with it, the training shouldn't tell you to use any chat apps, or phone calls, etc., because there's always a chance that an investigation is already under way and that the communications medium is tapped. If you're committing crime, "speaking with care" recommendations are not good enough.
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Uber must be pretty threatening; they appear to garner more attention than organised crime.
Requiem for the American Dream
Yeap; now it's just the shills for <theWayThingsWereCorp>.
Requiem for the American Dream
No,
This is what racketeer influenced and corrupt organization (RICO) was invented for and it's how those whose hands are "clean" ( shareholders and all the rest who can't be directly connected to the acts, but profited anyway ) are held accountable for this type of operation.
I'm certain this isn't the only one in the valley, but it's certainly about the most egregious.
If the Clinton Foundation isn't a corporation, just what kind of legal entity is it? The dictionary definition of a "corporation" is a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law. synonyms: company, firm, business, concern, operation, house, organization, agency, trust, partnership;
The Clinton Foundation is a group of people authorized to act as a single entity.
If Uber is an incorporated entity in the United States then various laws and civil requirements apply, including Sarbanes-Oxley documentation requirements and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure business document archiving "guidelines" [where "guidelines" = requirements]. A brief introduction:
http://www.metrocorpcounsel.co...
The Clinton foundation isn't a corporation you dolt. Troll harder next time please.
Please alert the Arkansas Secretary of State - he seems pretty confused about this:
http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/co...
The IRS also thinks that this nonexistent corporation is a 501C3, probably want to alert them, also.
Do you have ESP?
So this is me the last few months:
"I could make more money if i drove for Uber too HOLY SHIT THE OWNER YELLED AT A DRIVER??"
"Oh I'm overreacting, it's money HOLY CRAP SEXUAL ALLEGATIONS?"
"I really need to relax and just apply, it's money in my pocke...WTF YOU GUYS PUT YOUR AWS CREDENTIALS IN A GITHUB REPO???"
"My kid really deserves better, i should download the app and jus.....WHAT THE HELL THEY KNOWINGLY AND BRAZENLY SUBVERT THE LAW???"
I really don't know what to say at this point...
No, that would be after the investigation begins, not beforehand.