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- December 4, 2018
- 6 minutes read
Former Uber Employees Claim ‘Deeply Troubling’ Practices in Lawsuit
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Photograph by Michael Faas/Fortune Four former Uber Employees from the company’s security team are alleging in…
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Four former Uber Employees from the company’s security team are alleging in court that the on-demand transportation giant is trying to stop them from dishing out information on what they say is “a number of deeply troubling practices at Uber that have not been publicly revealed.”
These employees took to a filing in a San Francisco state court which comes in response to a recent complaint by Uber accusing them of unlawfully making away with confidential records when they exited the company and using this records to form a lawsuit against it.
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The four Ex employees – Nicholas Gicinto, Mat Henley, Jacob Nocon and Edward Russo state of having “potentially criminal initiatives against competitors, secret capabilities embedded in Uber’s smartphone applications, and offensive intrusions into the privacy of users.” in the filing.
These legal filings can trace its roots to be Uber-Waymo saga which ended in the latter getting a $245 million equity stake in Uber as compensation. During court proceedings, an ex colleague of the four men, Richard Jacobs took to the witness stand and dished out information on accusations he presented to federal prosecutors stating that Uber’s security unit took part in questionable corporate surveillance tactics and illegal practices. The four later sued Jacobs for defamation asserting that his claims were false. They profess that Uber failed to defend their reputations and also repeated some of Jacob’s statements in the court complaint filed against Uber for defamation and wrongful termination.
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| Khosrowshahi speaks at this year’s Fortune Brainstorm Tech event
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“We don’t object to these former employees making any claims they wish,” Uber spokesman Matt Kallman said in an emailed statement to Bloomberg. “What we do object to is their walking off with company property and their misuse of privileged information for personal gain.”
