Monday, October 9, 2017

Anthony Levandowski held onto a trove of data on Alphabet’s technology even after he left the company

Levandowski and his co-founder Lior

Ron had images of Alphabet’s self-driving car components on his phone and repeatedly discussed deleting or actually deleted “potentially relevant” files from his personal devices, the report revealed.
It does caution, however, that some of these files may have been deleted in good faith so that neither Ron nor Levandowski retained any confidential information before leaving Alphabet and selling their company to Uber. In the same breath, the report, conducted by cybersecurity firm Stroz Friedberg, also said they were both still deleting files after they became aware they the firm would be looking through their personal devices.