Uber Must Provide Waymo With Data Regarding Its Otto Acquisition, Rules Court (thetechportal.com) 32
An appeals court today has ruled that Anthony Levandowski, the Uber executive accused of taking documents from Google's Waymo, can't use the Fifth Amendment to prevent Uber from turning over documents in the case. "The court has now directed Uber to provide data associated with its Otto acquisition to Waymo," reports The Tech Portal. From the report: Following the case, Levandowski invoked the fifth amendment, so as to prevent any other information which could implicate him from coming to the surface. Meanwhile, Waymo has been claiming that Levandowski and Uber signed an agreement with each other just a few days after the former quit his job at Google. The company has also asked Uber to provide it with a log containing details of the cab aggregator's legal involvement with Levandowski. Levandowski has been opposing the motion, stating that it would violate his fifth amendment. However, a new court ruling has quashed these hopes. With this ruling, Waymo can technically also request Uber for a copy of the due diligence report. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said: "Mr. Levandowski argues that he is entitled to relief under the Fifth Amendment because production of the unredacted privilege log could potentially incriminate him. We are not persuaded that the district court erred in its ruling requiring defendants to produce an unredacted privilege log."
All those dot com names... (Score:2)
That is some first-class word salad right there.
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I like to crumble up day old fecal matter from the kitty litter box to add a little bit of flavor to things.
Hey, that's how I named my startup, too!
Re: eating salad (Score:1)
Yeah, but if you go to Walmart you can buy your own greens and make a better salad.
Just make sure you don't touch the receipt [plos.org].
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Yeah, but if you go to Walmart you can buy your own greens and make a better salad. I like to crumble up day old fecal matter from the kitty litter box to add a little bit of flavor to things. Also, Trump did NOT win the popular vote! NOT my president!
Doesn't matter. He is indeed your president. Enjoy. Trump being president is very much the fault of the DNC. If you want to be angry, be angry at them for handing over the presidency on a silver platter.
Your Honor... (Score:3)
5th amendment applies to testimony only (Score:3, Interesting)
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said: "Mr. Levandowski argues that he is entitled to relief under the Fifth Amendment because production of the unredacted privilege log could potentially incriminate him.
The privilege log is a DOCUMENT.
Since when did the 5TH Amendment apply to Documents or other Tangible written evidence, Ever?
As far as I know, if you commit a crime and write something about it in your private diary, then Yes, the police ARE allowed to use it against you, and you can be prosecuted in court based on this evidence. Hell..... they can even use it against you if you make a note about it on your smartphone and secure it with a passcode. Courts have ordered people to hand over their passcodes.
So why would the guys at Uber think this would go any differently than the well-established standard that once a piece of information is made into a tangible form, whether written to a piece of paper, Or saved to a hard drive, the 5th amendment does not protect the medium from seizure, analysis, and compulsory decryption if necessary to access the info, And the 5th amendment no longer protects the information once recorded?
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They can force you to hand over the phone, the problem is there is no legal way to force some one to remember something because if you legitimately forget or for any reason lacked the knowledge, then would in fact be slowly but surely psychologically torturing you to death with an infinite jail sentence for refusal to comply with the impossible.
I know Uber has been (Score:3)
fucking itself over as of late but I didn't realize it had moved on to fucking itself over using a baseball bat with rusty nails sticking out of it.
Don't believe google's lies (Score:1)
Consider this: what if Levandowski is conspiring with Google to fuck over Uber? Waymo is pretty much dead. Everyone else -- Uber, Tesla, GM, Ford, even fucking Chrysler -- is ahead of them. So here's the real timeline:
Uber approaches Levandowski about laundering some documents. Levandowski talks to Larry Page about it (not enough attention is being paid to this conversati
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I don't think you know very much about the industry.
"Waymo is pretty much dead... even fucking Chrysler -- is ahead of them."
Chrysler's driverless car program *is through* Waymo. And Waymo has a pile more road hours and proven functionality than any of the competition. Your conspiracy theory seems pretty far-fetched, although of course nothing's impossible.