An Uber exec allegedly said that CIA-trained spies it contracted with were “all Boy Scouts now.”
There are a lot of explosive claims in a recently unsealed letter written by a lawyer for a former Uber intelligence manager.
One claim is that Uber contracted with ex-CIA operatives to bug hotels, infiltrate WhatsApp groups, and obtain sensitive information.
In one example cited in the letter, these operatives were able to record executives at a competitor holding a business meeting at a hotel reacting to news that Uber had receieved billions in funding from the Saudi government.
An explosive letter recently unsealed in the Uber-Waymo trade secrets legal battle has a lot of details that Uber probably wishes weren’t public.
The so-called “Jacobs letter” was written by a lawyer for a former Uber intelligence manager, and it contains allegations that the company had internal teams tasked with bugging hotels, infiltrating sensitive WhatsApp groups, and obtaining trade secrets from its competitors.
Tech: Uber used former CIA officers posing as businessmen to collect trade secrets and other intel, explosive letter claims
