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Ex-VW Employee Sues Over U.S. Data Deletion
A former Volkswagen AG employee in the U.S. is suing the company for being fired after attempting to block the deletion of data related to VW’s diesel emission cheating, according to German media.
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A former Volkswagen AG employee in the U.S. is suing the company for being fired after attempting to block the deletion of data related to VW’s diesel emission cheating, according to German media.
The media reports don’t identify the ex-employee, who claims he was following his manager’s orders to prevent a coworker from making the deletions beginning Sept. 18. That was the day the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency accused VW of using a “defeat device” to evade manipulate emission tests.
The lawsuit says the alleged erasures came after the U.S. Dept. of Justice ordered Volkswagen Group of America to halt all “routine” data deletions, according to Reuters.
The plaintiff, who worked at a VW data processing center in Michigan, claims he was dismissed after an internal debate at VW about the deletions because the company feared he would alert authorities. The former employee claims Michigan’s “whistleblower” law shields him from retaliation by the carmaker.
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