Former Apple employee accused of stealing self-driving car secrets

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ANI California [United States]
Last Updated : Jul 11 2018 | 12:25 PM IST

A former Apple employee has been charged for allegedly stealing the company's trade secrets in relation with the self-driving vehicle project.

The employee, Xiaolang Zhang, worked on the autonomous car project and left the company to work for a Chinese electric vehicle company called Xpeng Motors where he allegedly took over 40 GB of Apple's intellectual property data, Wired reported.

Zhang claimed to have taken home a Linux server and the data it contained for his own education so as to secure a job within Apple.

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First Published: Jul 11 2018 | 12:25 PM IST

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