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发帖数: 29846 | 1 A Chinese Apple hardware engineer who allegedly stole the iPhone maker’s
driverless car secrets for a China-based company has been charged by the US
in the second such case since July.
Jizhong Chen was seen by a fellow Apple employee taking photographs on
January 11 with a wide-angle lens inside a secure work space that houses the
company’s autonomous car project, about six months after he signed a
strict confidentiality oath when he was hired, according to a criminal
complaint filed in federal court in San Jose, California.
Prosecutors said Chen admitted to taking the photos and backing up some 2,
000 files to his personal hard drive, including manuals and schematics for
the project, but didn’t tell Apple he had applied for a job with a China-
based autonomous vehicle company.
The arrest comes amid an unprecedented crackdown by the US on Chinese
corporate espionage.
As US President Donald Trump ratcheted up his trade war with China, the
Justice Department in November announced a “China Initiative” aimed at
prioritising trade-theft cases and litigating them as quickly as possible.
San Francisco prosecutors have brought trade-secret theft cases against
Chinese nationals who worked for companies as diverse as Micron Technology,
a memory chip maker, and drug maker Genentech.
This week, the US charged Huawei, China’s largest telecommunications
company, with stealing secrets from its American partner, T-Mobile US.
Apple said disclosure of the data taken by Chen would be “enormously
damaging”, according to prosecutors. Among the photos seized by the
government: an image stamped “December 19” diagramming Apple’s autonomous
driving architecture.
Huawei is target of US criminal probe into alleged theft of trade secrets
Another from June 2018 depicts an assembly drawing of a wire harness for an
autonomous vehicle.
Chen told Apple investigators he had taken the pictures to support
applications for jobs within the company after supervisors tagged him with a
performance improvement plan, according to the complaint. After Apple
learned he was seeking employment with a Chinese rival, he was suspended.
The engineer later told Apple he intended to travel to China to visit his
ill father, but was arrested last week before he could board his direct
flight. He was released from federal custody after posting US$500,000 in
cash and property on January 25.
Chen’s lawyer didn’t immediately respond to phone and email requests for
comment.
Zhang Xiaolang, the former Apple engineer charged in July with stealing self
-driving car secrets for a Chinese start-up, pleaded not guilty to the
charges. He, too, told Apple investigators he was planning to go to China to
visit family.
China ‘has taken the gloves off’ in its theft of US technology secrets
The company that Zhang was allegedly working for, Guangzhou-based Xiaopeng
Motors, said at the time that it found no indication Zhang communicated any
sensitive information to it from Apple.
Apple began its autonomous vehicle project around 2015 with the goal of
developing a full self-driving electric car to compete with Tesla. | a****1
发帖数: 634 | 2 中国人，你们不能争气点吗？要偷也别被抓到啊！
每次有中国间谍被抓，倒霉的是所有在美华裔！尤其在现在川政权的排外的氛围下，华
裔实在不需要这样的新闻啊！ | a*****g
发帖数: 19398 | 3 某些黑人经常在偷偷抢抢的暴力领域犯罪出头
某些华人经常在知识产权领域犯罪出头
唉，文化差异啊
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【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: A Chinese Apple hardware engineer who allegedly stole the iPhone maker’s
: driverless car secrets for a China-based company has been charged by the US
: in the second such case since July.
: Jizhong Chen was seen by a fellow Apple employee taking photographs on
: January 11 with a wide-angle lens inside a secure work space that houses the
: company’s autonomous car project, about six months after he signed a
: strict confidentiality oath when he was hired, according to a criminal
: complaint filed in federal court in San Jose, California.
: Prosecutors said Chen admitted to taking the photos and backing up some 2,
: 000 files to his personal hard drive, including manuals and schematics for
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发帖数: 24733 | 4 这些跟台湾人在电信诈骗领域犯罪出头比起来都是渣渣 |
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