Federal prosecutors from the United States Justice Department are investigating espionage in the Uber-Waymo case as new revelations and more questions arose during the final trial. This was due to a 37-page letter by Uber' former employee Richard Jacobs, reports Associated Press. Jacob, who was a manager of global intelligence at Uber, had described in his letter on how the company stole trade secrets from its rivals, including Google’s self-driving car division Waymo using secret messaging systems. As per the AP report, the following are Jacob’s allegations: -He said that he was wrongfully demoted in the company was later fired as he tried to stop the company to indulge in wrong practices of stealing its rival’ s secrets. And that, Uber paid him $4.5 million after firing him, as part of a confidential settlement which has a provision requiring him not to say anything that would harm Uber. -The cab aggregator had set up a unit called Marketplace Analytics to steal trade secrets from its rivals, however, he did not any of the rivals. But, later during the questioning session, he admitted that Uber stole trade secrets from Waymo and intellectual property of others in the US. -To protect itself from legal troubles, Uber communicated on enterprise instant messaging platform Wickr, which automatically erases the messages. -The company used a secret computer system to avoid digital trails and trained its self-driving car engineers in Pittsburgh on how to conceal their digital traces. -Uber's security team also engaged with contractors- a team of former CIA agents- to…
