Revelations that Uber conducted secret surveillance against competitors prompted the company’s top lawyer to issue a cease-and-desist order to security staff, according to a new report.
“To the extent anyone is working on any kind of competitive intelligence project that involves the surveillance of individuals, stop it now,” Uber’s chief legal officer, Tony West, said in a message to his “security colleagues,” the report said.
“We don’t need to be following folks around in order to gain some competitive advantage. We’re better than that.”
West’s message was prompted by a letter introduced during a theft-of-trade-secrets lawsuit against Uber by Google self-driving-car spinoff Waymo.