Former Uber Technologies Inc. CEO Travis Kalanick indicated recently that the company may allow personal laptops at work. One device that potentially made it inside Uber’s campus came from self-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski, whose digital files are currently at the center of Uber’s dispute over driverless car technology with Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Waymo.
Uber is not the first and it certainly won’t be the last company to have personal devices in the office. It’s a growing trend that’s all but impossible to fight, according to in-house lawyers, making it all the more important to protect against the risks.
