Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday August 21st, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Uber's former CSO is charged with obstruction of justice, making him the first tech executive ever charged for a security incident.

A legend of the Amazon C-suite is leaving next year.

Epic Games continues to gleefully poke Apple in the eye, how Apple is cutting

5G costs in the iPhone 12, and of course, the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech. The former chief security officer for Uber, Joe Sullivan,

has been charged with obstruction of justice for trying to conceal the 2016 data breach of millions

of users and drivers from FTC officials. You might remember the breach in question when hackers

broke into Uber's internal systems, got their hands on

user data, even on the license numbers of 600,000 Uber drivers, it was bad stuff.

Well, quoting the New York Times, the criminal charges filed in

US District Court in San Francisco against Joe Sullivan 52 are believed to be

the first against an executive stemming from a company's response to a security incident.

But the charges drew an important distinction between failing to protect Uber's computer

network and failing to tell the authorities about it.

Prosecutor said that Mr. Sullivan committed two felonies when he didn't disclose the 2016

incident to federal investigators who were already investigating a similar data breach that

had occurred two years earlier.

Quote, when a company like Uber gets hacked, we expect good corporate citizenship.

We expect prompt disclosure to the employee and consumer victims in that hack.

In this case, what we saw was the exact opposite of good

corporate behavior, said David Anderson, the U.S. attorney in San Francisco in an interview.

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