Xiaolang Zhang, the former Apple employee who pleaded guilty to stealing information about the development of the company's self-driving vehicle, has been sentenced to 120 days in prison followed by a three-year supervised release.
  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2512·
    10 months ago

    Zhang resigned from Apple following a paternity leave and a trip to China, telling the iPhonemaker that he was going to work in the country for XPeng Motors. That reportedly triggered an investigation, since XPeng is also working on autonomous driving technology, which revealed that Zhang was caught on CCTV taking hardware from Apple’s labs and transferring files to his wife’s computer.

    6 months is not long enough.

    This is stealing trade secrets, then fleeing to a country that doesn’t give a shit about that.

  • brlemworld@lemmy.worldEnglish
    64·
    10 months ago

    How long is Tim Cook going to jail for stealing the technology for the apple watch?

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Infringing on a patent and literally stealing hardware, and taking it to a Chinese competitor, are on completely different levels.