{"id":288950,"date":"2018-12-04T07:25:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T05:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=288950"},"modified":"2018-12-04T07:25:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T05:25:27","slug":"ex-uber-employees-allege-deeply-troubling-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/288950\/ex-uber-employees-allege-deeply-troubling-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Uber employees allege \u201cdeeply troubling\u201d practices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Four former employees on Uber Technologies Inc\u2019s security team are claiming in court that the company is trying to block them from disclosing \u201ca number of deeply troubling practices at Uber that have not been publicly revealed.”<\/p>\n

The ex-employees didn\u2019t substantiate their claim in a filing Friday in state court in San Francisco. They were responding to last week\u2019s complaint by the ride-hailing giant accusing them of improperly taking confidential records when they left the company and using the information to draft their own lawsuit against Uber.<\/p>\n

The four – Mat Henley, Nicholas Gicinto, Edward Russo and Jacob Nocon – said in the filing that they have evidence of “potentially criminal initiatives against competitors, secret capabilities embedded in Uber\u2019s smartphone applications, and offensive intrusions into the privacy of users.”<\/p>\n

“We don\u2019t object to these former employees making any claims they wish,\u201d Uber spokesman Matt Kallman said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we do object to is their walking off with company property and their misuse of privileged information for personal gain.”<\/p>\n

The legal filings are part of the wide-reaching fallout from Waymo\u2019s lawsuit alleging that Uber stole its trade secrets for self-driving cars – which the companies settled this year in the middle of a trial.<\/p>\n

During the Waymo case, a former colleague of the four men, Richard Jacobs, took the witness stand to detail accusations he had presented to federal prosecutors that the company\u2019s security unit engaged in questionable corporate surveillance tactics and illegal activities. Henley, Gicinto, Russo and Nocon later sued Jacobs for defamation, alleging his claims were untrue.<\/p>\n

The four contend Uber not only failed to defend their reputations but also repeated some of Jacobs\u2019s false statements. They\u2019ve drafted a complaint against the company for defamation and wrongful termination, according to Friday\u2019s filing.<\/p>\n

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Four former employees on Uber Technologies Inc.\u2019s security team are claiming in court that the company is trying to block them from disclosing \u201ca number of deeply troubling practices at Uber that have not been publicly revealed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":188739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,6457],"class_list":["post-288950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288970,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288950\/revisions\/288970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}