A former Uber security manager says an espionage team inside the ride-hailing service used former CIA agents to help the company spy on its rivals overseas.
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The testimony in a San Francisco courtroom Tuesday comes amid revelations that federal prosecutors are investigating allegations that
Uber deployed an espionage team to plunder trade secrets from its rivals. That has triggered a delay in a high-profile federal trial over whether the beleaguered ride-hailing service stole self-driving car technology from a Google spinoff.
Under questioning, Richard Jacobs, Uber's manager of global intelligence, said that
Uber hired several contractors that employed former CIA agents to help the ride-hailing service infiltrate its rivals' computers. Jacobs said the surveillance occurred overseas.
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