Ex-Apple engineer sentenced to six months in prison for stealing self-driving car tech

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• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll agree with you when a corporation is jailed for life when an employee or consumer of their product dies. Until then, this is simple theft and should be financially punished.

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      O.o Since when is grand theft just a financial punishment? You realize you can get years in jail for it, right?…

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  • isles@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, we must protect capital.

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    • InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We should when it’s other capital that wants to steal it.

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Will no one think of the shareholders???

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  • brlemworld@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How long do you think Tim Cook should go to jail for stealing?

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  • uis@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hate to say this, but there is no Stalin on you.

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  • Aatube@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, there's also been five years of trials

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• impersonator@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So 120 days or 6 months? Which is it?

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  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Business days.

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    • impersonator@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ahh he gets weekends at home, how considerate!

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  • maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s Mars days obviously

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  • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It may be a 6 month sentence with an early release after 120 days, followed by 3 years supervision. However, perhaps if he served the full 6 months he wouldn’t have the supervised release.

    I don’t know, I’m just guessing.

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    • Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Could be time served as well. Still dumb to list 6 months in headline then say something else in the article without clarifying.

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  • suction@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A Monf has 20 dais so do the math, dummy

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• brlemworld@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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