Uber is blocking us from disclosing its troubling practices: Ex-employees

The legal filings are part of the wide-reaching fallout from Waymo's lawsuit alleging that Uber stole its trade secrets for self-driving cars

Four former employees on Uber Technologies Inc.’s security team are claiming in court that the company is trying to block them from disclosing “a number of deeply troubling practices at Uber that have not been publicly revealed."

The ex-employees didn’t substantiate their claim in a filing Friday in state court in San Francisco. They were responding to last week’s complaint by the ride-hailing giant accusing them of improperly taking confidential records when they left the company and using the information to draft their own lawsuit against Uber.

The four -- Mat Henley, Nicholas Gicinto, Edward Russo and Jacob Nocon -- said in