{"id":121389,"date":"2017-12-01T09:09:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T14:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=121389"},"modified":"2017-12-01T09:10:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T14:10:17","slug":"uber-facing-criminal-probe-due-to-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2017\/12\/uber-facing-criminal-probe-due-to-espionage\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber Facing Criminal Probe Due to “Espionage”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who has faced one problem after another since his arrival at the company, is now dealing with a criminal investigation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Federal prosecutors are apparently probing allegations that Uber engaged in\u00a0“espionage” to uncover the trade secrets of rivals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The investigation has prompted a federal judge to delay a trial in the mega lawsuit that Google and its self-driving-car unit have filed against Uber.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Waymo\u00a0has charged that Uber hired away a senior Google engineer to steal key secrets about its Lidar system.\u00a0Waymo\u00a0CEO John\u00a0Krafcik\u00a0has said the Lidar unit is a vital piece of the\u00a0company’s\u00a0self-driving car system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Additionally,\u00a0Waymo\u00a0has charged that Uber stole in the trade secrets to gain information about Uber\u2019s advanced self-driving technology. Self-driving technology is expected to make ride-sharing services, a service pioneered by Uber, substantially more profitable for company\u2019s offering the service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(Uber under fire as it belatedly admits hackers stole data. <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the story.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The U.S. Justice Department routinely declines to comment on criminal investigations, such as the\u00a0probe into Uber\u2019s conduct. However, its existence came to light during a routine hearing called to set a schedule for\u00a0Waymo\u00a0vs. Uber trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The\u00a0investigation\u00a0was started after a former Uber employee, Richard Jacobs,\u00a0Uber\u2019s\u00a0director\u00a0of global intelligence, sent what was described as 37-page\u00a0letter\u00a0to\u00a0federal\u00a0authorities.\u00a0In\u00a0the letter, Jacobs said he was dismissed by Uber after he tried to halt the misconduct by Uber employees.<\/p>\n

(Uber wants to\u00a0launch flying cars over Los Angeles by 2028 for the Olympics. To read more,\u00a0<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The company\u2019s legal problems, coupled with trouble with the conduct of its drivers and regulatory problems, ranging from spats with local communities to court ruling that effectively barred Uber from operating in London unless it agrees to treat drivers as\u00a0full-time employees and offer them vacation\u00a0and\u00a0other\u00a0benefits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Unber\u00a0also failed to disclose a major data breach \u2013 even after paying ransom to hackers \u2013 that left its customers credit card numbers in the hands of\u00a0potential\u00a0thieves.<\/p>\n

(Uber finally seemed on the mend after months of trouble.\u00a0<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the story.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The troubles have exacerbated the Uber\u2019s growing financial losses that have forced it to turn partners such as SoftBank, which is demanding\u00a0a\u00a0larger\u00a0share of the company in exchange for its\u00a0continuing\u00a0financial\u00a0support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Federal prosecutors are apparently probing allegations that Uber engaged in “espionage” to uncover the trade secrets of rivals. Find out what happened at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":118597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121389"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=121389"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=121389"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=121389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}