Chinese engineer charged in theft of Apple self-driving car secrets

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A Chinese engineer, Jizhong Chen, was charged with stealing trade secrets from Apple’s self-driving car project. Chen was arrested in January before he could board a flight to China, where he had applied for a job with an autonomous car company. He had been hired by Apple in June and was part of a hardware design team working on the project. An internal investigation revealed that Chen had taken photos of the project and backed up over 2,000 files to a personal computer. This is the second incident of trade secrets theft from Apple’s self-driving car project, with the previous case involving another engineer, Xiaolang Zhang.

Brands mentioned: Tesla, Mercedes, Apple