Another Apple employee from China has been charged with stealing self-driving car secrets

[TruthTheOnlyDefense]

• An Apple employee has been charged with stealing trade secrets from Apple's self-driving car division, Project Titan.
• According to a recently unsealed FBI charge document, Chinese national Jizhong Chen took more than 2,000 files containing Apple proprietary material.
• Chen is the second Chinese Apple employee in six months to be charged with trying to steal trade secrets from the company.
• The arrests come against the backdrop of the ongoing trade war between the US and China.

An Apple employee has been charged by the FBI with stealing self-driving car secrets from the company's secretive Project Titan division, according to a charge document seen by NBC's Bay Area affiliate.

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Didi Chuxing's Jean Liu take a car in China.

Project Titan has been the centre of a lot of speculation since it launched in 2014. it was believed to be working on an electric car, but executives in 2016 pointed towards autonomous driving. Recently, Titan has undergone some major reshuffling, as Apple laid off 200 employees tied to the project earlier this month.

Jizhong Chen, a Chinese national, was hired by Apple as a hardware engineer for its self-driving car project in June 2018, according to the unsealed FBI charge sheet.

He aroused suspicion when fellow employees saw him taking photos. After that, Apple asked to look at his personal devices and found "over two thousand files containing confidential and proprietary Apple material, including manuals, schematics and diagrams," backed up onto a personal hard-drive. The was in violation of Apple's policies.

Chen claimed the images were an "insurance policy" because he was making job applications after being placed on a performance improvement plan in December 2018. However, Apple found he had collected information before being put on the improvement plan, the FBI document said.

Read more:

Apple's secret car project is much bigger than people think. Of course it had to cut 200 jobs.

Chen told Apple that he was applying for positions inside the company, but it then learned that he'd applied to two jobs outside the company - one of which was with a direct Chinese autonomous driving competitor. Apple suspended Chen without pay on January 11.

He was arrested one day before he was due to fly to China, allegedly to visit his sick father. Chen's attorney Daniel Olmos declined to comment when contacted by The Wall Street Journal.

Chen is the second Chinese national Apple employee to be charged with stealing trade secrets in six months.

In July, federal agents stopped ex-Apple employee Xiaolang Zhang at San Jose airport after he bought a last-minute ticket to China. The FBI indictment said he was in possession of a confidential 25-page document containing schematic drawings of a circuit board for autonomous Apple vehicles.

Xiaolang is also being represented by Olmos, who said he has pleaded not guilty to theft of trade secrets.

The arrests come against the backdrop of the ongoing trade war between the US and China. On Tuesday, America formally requested the extradition of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, after charging Huawei with breaking US trade sanctions and stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile.

Apple was not immediately available for comment when contacted by Business Insider.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/worl...riving-car-secrets/ar-BBSZulI?ocid=spartanntp

This is all the Chinese can do it seems, steal, bully, and lie.

 

[nahtanbob]

it happens in silicon valley all the time

 

[GHALIB]

• An Apple employee has been charged with stealing trade secrets from Apple's self-driving car division, Project Titan.
• According to a recently unsealed FBI charge document, Chinese national Jizhong Chen took more than 2,000 files containing Apple proprietary material.
• Chen is the second Chinese Apple employee in six months to be charged with trying to steal trade secrets from the company.
• The arrests come against the backdrop of the ongoing trade war between the US and China.

An Apple employee has been charged by the FBI with stealing self-driving car secrets from the company's secretive Project Titan division, according to a charge document seen by NBC's Bay Area affiliate.

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Didi Chuxing's Jean Liu take a car in China.

Project Titan has been the centre of a lot of speculation since it launched in 2014. it was believed to be working on an electric car, but executives in 2016 pointed towards autonomous driving. Recently, Titan has undergone some major reshuffling, as Apple laid off 200 employees tied to the project earlier this month.

Jizhong Chen, a Chinese national, was hired by Apple as a hardware engineer for its self-driving car project in June 2018, according to the unsealed FBI charge sheet.

He aroused suspicion when fellow employees saw him taking photos. After that, Apple asked to look at his personal devices and found "over two thousand files containing confidential and proprietary Apple material, including manuals, schematics and diagrams," backed up onto a personal hard-drive. The was in violation of Apple's policies.

Chen claimed the images were an "insurance policy" because he was making job applications after being placed on a performance improvement plan in December 2018. However, Apple found he had collected information before being put on the improvement plan, the FBI document said.

Read more:

Apple's secret car project is much bigger than people think. Of course it had to cut 200 jobs.

Chen told Apple that he was applying for positions inside the company, but it then learned that he'd applied to two jobs outside the company - one of which was with a direct Chinese autonomous driving competitor. Apple suspended Chen without pay on January 11.

He was arrested one day before he was due to fly to China, allegedly to visit his sick father. Chen's attorney Daniel Olmos declined to comment when contacted by The Wall Street Journal.

Chen is the second Chinese national Apple employee to be charged with stealing trade secrets in six months.

In July, federal agents stopped ex-Apple employee Xiaolang Zhang at San Jose airport after he bought a last-minute ticket to China. The FBI indictment said he was in possession of a confidential 25-page document containing schematic drawings of a circuit board for autonomous Apple vehicles.

Xiaolang is also being represented by Olmos, who said he has pleaded not guilty to theft of trade secrets.

The arrests come against the backdrop of the ongoing trade war between the US and China. On Tuesday, America formally requested the extradition of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, after charging Huawei with breaking US trade sanctions and stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile.

Apple was not immediately available for comment when contacted by Business Insider.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/worl...riving-car-secrets/ar-BBSZulI?ocid=spartanntp

This is all the Chinese can do it seems, steal, bully, and lie.

it happens in silicon valley all the time

copy cats and tech thieves should be punished by bocott and sanctions .america should expell enmass such prospective thieves .

it happens in silicon valley all the time

americans should do something serious .

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

This is all the Chinese can do it seems, steal, bully, and lie.

They probably can't even bend a paperclip correctly without us showing them the way.

 

[Hack-Hook]

Well I feel sorry for Chinese if they want to base their self driving care based on Apple self driving car research considering how successful it was .

 

[GHALIB]

They probably can't even bend a paperclip correctly without us showing them the way.

that is absolutely true .

Well I feel sorry for Chinese if they want to base their self driving care based on Apple self driving car research considering how successful it was .

they steal from all quarters ,not only from apple .

 

[HariPrasad]

Stealing requires talent like reverse engineering. Those who do not have this talent jealous of China.

 

[GHALIB]

Stealing requires talent like reverse engineering. Those who do not have this talent jealous of China.

all thieves are talented but their last resort is jail.

 

[F-22Raptor]

Well I feel sorry for Chinese if they want to base their self driving care based on Apple self driving car research considering how successful it was .

This is the 2nd Chinese caught stealing from this project.

 

[HariPrasad]

all thieves are talented but their last resort is jail.

No you are jealous of china and you are unable to recognize Chinese talent. They have repeatedly told me that Reverse engineering requires talent which Indians do not have.

 

[GHALIB]

No you are jealous of china and you are unable to recognize Chinese talent. They have repeatedly told me that Reverse engineering requires talent which Indians do not have.

yeah they have talent of reverse engineering ,
the day they fail in stealing tech , their engineering will reverse in their back.

This is the 2nd Chinese caught stealing from this project.

there are millions in america .

 

[Darwin]

Something seriously wrong with the chinese character. I can understand a occasional ipr thief but Chinese seem to have zero morals. In 90% of the cases its a Chinese guy stealing from Western companies. The most shameless people ever. And having worked with them , I have seen this first hand. Crooks to the core.

 

[GHALIB]

Something seriously wrong with the chinese character. I can understand a occasional ipr thief but Chinese seem to have zero morals. In 90% of the cases its a Chinese guy stealing from Western companies. The most shameless people ever. And having worked with them , I have seen this first hand. Crooks to the core.

they get support from their govt .

 

[Darwin]

they get support from their govt .

Thousands of Indians working in Western countries..How many cases of Indians being caught every year ?

 

[GHALIB]

Thousands of Indians working in Western countries..How many cases of Indians being caught every year ?

we don't support tech thieves .nor we are interested in reverse engineering .