Former Apple employee charged with theft of autonomous-vehicle trade secrets; CNet, July 10, 2018

Kyle Hyatt, CNet;

Former Apple employee charged with theft of autonomous-vehicle trade secrets

 

"The US government has filed charges of theft of trade secrets against a former member of Apple's self-driving car team, according to MacRumors.

The former employee, Xiaolang Zhang, was arrested Saturday in San Jose, California, while attempting to fly to China and was questioned by the FBI regarding the alleged theft of Apple's intellectual property. According to a criminal complaint filed Monday in federal court, Zhang confessed to the theft. Zhang could face up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

According to the court filing, Zhang was hired in 2015 to work on Apple's self-driving car project designing and testing circuit boards that would analyze sensor data."