Ex-Waymo pioneer gets 18-months sentence for data theft

August 6, 2020

Before leaving Waymo, Levandowski had copied more than 14 000 documents containing business-sensitive information onto his personal laptop /dpa

Anthony Levandowski is sentenced to 18 months in jail for stealing business-sensitive documents when he moved from Waymo to competitor Uber in 2016. Levandowski was the brain and driving force behind Waymo, the Google company that develops autonomous cars. Levandowski took thousands of ‘top secret’ computer files with him from Waymo to Uber. “This is

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