After he departed Apple in spring 2018, the company discovered he had ‘accessed large amounts of sensitive proprietary and confidential information in the days leading up to his departure’, the release said. — Reuters
A former Apple engineer accused of absconding from the company with trade secrets on self-driving cars fled to China, federal officials reported.
The 35-year-old Mountain View, California, resident joined Apple in 2016 as a software engineer to work on autonomous systems, such as those used in self-driving vehicles, the US Attorney’s Office for Northern California said in a May 16 news release.
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