Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski

Re:Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski by huac on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @09:18PM (#14449855)

Sure, Google's interpretation is not particularly generous. But even the most charitable reading of the facts would find that Levandowski downloaded the files to an external disk, relatively close to when he left the company.

All of that is bad for Levandowski, but it's unclear if any of those files got used by Uber, which is where the case may very well fizzle out.

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Re:Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski by kbenson on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @09:37PM (#14449910)

> But even the most charitable reading of the facts would find that Levandowski downloaded the files to an external disk

Actually, no. All they have is that a few days after an SVN sync, a USB card reader was attached for 8 hours. There is no evidence presented that he actually copied any files, much less the synced SVN files, to whatever was connected with the USB card reader. He could have plugged it in to copy his personal SSH keys to the machine and left it in until he left for the day for all we know.

There is separate information that he exported a single Google Drive file to a personal device on January 11, titled "Chauffer TL Weekly Updates - Q4 2015". There are further logs about other high level engineers that subsequently left that also exported Google Drive files to personal devices prior to leaving as well.

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Re:Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski by throwaway13234 on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @10:25PM (#14450062)

This. Everyone should read the expert testimony themselves and come to their own conclusion. It's not long. Just a few pages.

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