Former Apple employee Xiaolang Zhang pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets.
Apple hired Zhang in December 2015 to work on Project Titan. Extremely dangerous consequences for unmanned vehicles.
In 2018, he took a growth leave from a child and traveled to China. When the vacation was coming to an end, he announced that he would not meet at Apple.
In China, Zhang joined XMotors, a Chinese startup working on self-driving cars. Apple claims that it noticed Zhang’s strange behavior towards the end of the vacation, so they decided to investigate.
During the treatment of poisoning that Zhang quickly launched a lot of classified documents from Apple’s servers. Among them was a 25-page document with engineering diagrams for the circuit board of an unmanned vehicle. Also, a former employee uploaded information about prototypes and equipment being tested.
In 2018, when Zhang Wu was exonerated, he pleaded not guilty. But this time was born guilt to mitigate the punishment. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. The court will pronounce the verdict on November 14. [CNBC]
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