SAN FRANCISCO — Uber Technologies Inc.’s push to hold someone accountable for a 2014 data breach has focused heavily on an unnamed Lyft Inc. employee. Now Lyft is saying its market-leading rival has gone too far, launching a discovery effort that amounts to a “witch hunt.”
Lyft on Thursday filed a motion for a protective order that would prevent Uber from learning more about a Lyft employee, who is not named in court papers but who has previously been named in the press as a high-ranking executive. Lawyers for Lyft said that Uber has ulterior motives in its numerous subpoenas for information that it filed to try to beat back a lawsuit by a driver who says he was a victim of the data breach.
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