In a Disregard for Proper Legal Conduct, Meta has Served to Ex-VP With a suit From Over Document Stealing Charges.
In the epic of corporate drama, Meta, the tycoon of social media, has brought its battle-axe of legal weapon to bear against the defunct senior executive. Dipinder Singh Khurana, former vice-president of infra for 12 years, was suspected of taking the valuable and highly classified collection of documents from the office and disappearing himself.
His alleged transgression? Leaving everything behind, though it didn’t feel it then, I stepped into the shadowy world of a secretive AI cloud computing startup, which happened to be my friend’s enemy in that technological war.
Being a privacy-wining World Financial Watch is facing yet another lawsuit. This time, the regulatory body created to monitor the cryptocurrencies is accused of violating the user’s online privacy. Instantly, Meta sees a violation of the agreement with T S Khurana, who used to be a collaborator of the organization, who is accused of committing disloyal acts about the issues concerning the company’s competitive advantages.
The cruxes where we were? It is recently alleged that Khurana has accumulated a wide trove of Meta’s internal documents, some of them sensitive, confidential, and discreditable sources on his personal Google Drive and Dropbox accounts, shortly before Meta’s exit from the company.
These agreements, as documented by Meta in its recent legal post, are filled with materials of utmost secrecy, including matters of staff candidates’ compensation details, bonuses, and staff performance as well as contractual agreements that are not public. That data heist was not the only thing that was said to have been done. Meta states these interviewees were people who worked for the social media company and subsequently broke free to join the startup firm which seems to mean the poaches are connected under one organization.
The company’s spokesperson has stated that the confidentiality of its information is a serious matter. As such, the involvement of such unethical behavior in the matter will not be accepted. The battle in the legal arena, ‘the spokesperson stresses, is the only route left for Meta to fight for the businesses and staff of the company.
Being the most recent illustration of teething that is going all over the tech industry, whereby companies are using the law to protect their intellectual property, this case is a symbol of this growing trend.
To cite a recent incident, an employee from Google was indicted by a court resulting from her stealing of what later turned out to be hundreds of secret files that are somehow connected to AI trademarks belonging to the company.
The long trial goes on with Meta CEO himself devoted to it, and all eyes will be on how this play in a court evolves. This could spark the creation of rules in the tech zone that will guide how companies will be safeguarding all their critical technologies when AI and cloud computing are the sources of innovations and competition nowadays.
