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28 August 2019Rory O'Neill

Ex-Uber, Google engineer charged with trade secrets theft

A California grand jury has indicted former Uber executive Anthony Levandowski for stealing trade secrets relating to self-driving cars from Google.

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20 March 2020   Anthony Levandowski, the former head of Uber’s self-driving unit, has agreed to plead guilty to stealing trade secrets from his former employer Google before joining Uber and kickstarting the ride-sharing company’s self-driving car development.
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5 August 2020   Disgraced former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski will spend 18 months in prison for stealing trade secrets before joining Uber and kickstarting the ride-sharing company’s self-driving car development.
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