A Tesla Whistleblower Says The Electrical Machine Maker's Safety Squad Is Staffed Amongst One-Time Members Of A Notorious Grouping From Uber That Allegedly Spied On Rivals

Elon. What the hell? 

From Business Insider:

• Some erstwhile members of a notorious safety squad at Uber are forthwith allegedly employed past times Tesla.
• They include Nick Gicinto, who reportedly is the novel caput of safety at Tesla.
• At Uber, Gicinto allegedly led a squad of erstwhile CIA representative officers who hacked into rivals' computers as well as secretly recorded their conversations.
• At Tesla, Gicinto as well as his squad allegedly spied on employees as well as hushed upwards a drug-trafficking investigation.
• The allegations almost the Uber squad working at Tesla were made past times Karl Hansen, a erstwhile Tesla employee who has filed a whistleblower tip amongst the Securities as well as Exchange Commission.

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"Several" employees inwards Tesla's safety subdivision — including the company's caput of safety — were previously a component subdivision of a like squad at Uber that allegedly stole information from rivals, hacked into their figurer systems, as well as recorded their individual conversations, according to a erstwhile employee of the electric-vehicle companionship who filed a whistleblower tip before this calendar month amongst the Securities as well as Exchange Commission.

At Tesla, those employees were component subdivision of a grouping that spied on employees' personal cell-phone communications as well as hid from shareholders a theft of raw materials as well as a drug trafficking band at the company's battery manufactory inwards Nevada, Karl Hansen, a erstwhile fellow member of Tesla's safety team, alleged inwards the tip, according to a contestation issue Th past times his lawyer.

"The safety personnel defendant of engaging inwards these tactics at Uber were hired past times Tesla this yr despite the revelation of a purported investigation past times the USA Attorney's Office inwards San Francisco ... [into] the actions related to the Uber safety team," Meissner Associates, the constabulary theatre representing Hansen, said inwards the statement....MORE