Brian Fung, Washington Post; Google accuses a former top engineer of stealing trade secrets and taking them to Uber
"Google is suing Uber and alleging that a former employee engaged in a “concerted plan” to steal trade secrets related to the search giant's self-driving car technology.
In a blog post Thursday, Google's self-driving car subsidiary, Waymo, said that a former top executive who later went to work for Uber illegally downloaded troves of proprietary data onto an external hard drive before taking the information to his new employer."
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Friday, February 24, 2017
Google accuses a former top engineer of stealing trade secrets and taking them to Uber; Washington Post, February 23, 2017
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