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Published time: 16 Dec, 2017 16:04 A suit brought against Uber by an autonomous car firm has yielded more explosive allegations against the ride-hailing service, including that specialized teams were used to carry out covert operations to nab trade secrets. The allegations were published in a letter on Friday by a Northern District of California […]
Enlarge (credit: Adam Berry / Getty Images News) The highly-anticipated demand letter written on behalf of a former Uber employee, which has become central to the unfolding drama that is the Waymo v. Uber trade secrets lawsuit, was publicly released on Friday afternoon. As previewed in earlier court hearings, the “Jacobs Letter” outlines in detailed […]
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite A bipartisan group of lawmakers and aides have viewed classified reports that House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes said showed evidence that some Trump associates were caught up in federal surveillance activities during the 2016 election. The documents seen by lawmakers at the National Security Agency’s headquarters show no evidence that […]
Thomson Reuters The unusual decision by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to allow FBI Director James Comey to publicly disclose the existence of an ongoing investigation into contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia may have been spurred, albeit unwittingly, by the president himself, according to a former DOJ official. When President Donald Trump tweeted […]
AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais A classified report from the US Justice Department reportedly does not confirm President Donald Trump’s accusations that President Barack Obama ordered a spying operation against him during the 2016 election, CNN reported, citing two government officials familiar with the DOJ document. Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California and House Intelligence Committee […]
View this image › GCHQ’s distinctive “donut” headquarters in Cheltenham. Barry Batchelor / PA Archive/PA Images Phoning GCHQ, the UK’s signals intelligence agency and counterpart to America’s NSA, for comment is an unusual process. Dialling the agency’s number leads to a simply and uninformative recorded message: “This call may be recorded for lawful purposes”. There’s […]
Screenshot via CNN The unsubstantiated wiretapping allegations President Donald Trump lobbed at former President Barack Obama have continued to haunt Trump ever since he tweeted the claims less than two weeks ago. Since then, Republicans and Democrats have denounced Trump’s allegations. The president on Wednesday night effectively acknowledged that he has no evidence to back […]
YouTube/Full Frontal After a short break, “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” made its return Wednesday night, just in time for International Women’s Day. A lot has happened since the host has been gone, and she didn’t skip her thoughts on Trump’s recent speech to Congress that was widely praised as “presidential.” “Last week, America’s one-man white supremacist […]
Associated Press Former President Barack Obama is said to be “furious” about President Donald Trump’s unproven claim that Obama ordered a surveillance operation on phones at Trump Tower during the 2016 election. People close to Obama told The Wall Street Journal in a story published Tuesday night that Obama was “livid” about Trump’s unfounded accusations, […]
Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images White House press secretary Sean Spicer was grilled by reporters in his Monday briefing, held off-camera, that focused on President Donald Trump’s unfounded weekend claims that President Barack Obama ordered wiretapping of Trump Tower phones late in the presidential campaign. Spicer was posed most frequently with the question of whether he was able […]
