Alarm didn't ring at Waymo before Uber was sued for theft

According to Alphabet unit's own engineer, stolen info against Uber may not have been precious

Some of the allegedly stolen information in Waymo’s trade-secrets case against Uber Technologies may not have been so precious after all, according to the Alphabet unit’s own engineer.

“Low-value” was the engineer’s assessment while investigating the downloading of files by driverless car executive Anthony Levandowski four months before Waymo called him a traitor in a high-stakes lawsuit headed to trial next month.

Uber is now trying to use its adversary’s internal emails from October 2016 — unsealed in court records Wednesday — to undermine Waymo’s claims that Levandowski helped steal thousands of files encompassing seven years of research and development when he