{"id":7518,"date":"2018-07-11T09:23:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T23:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=7518"},"modified":"2018-07-11T16:56:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T06:56:29","slug":"fbi-arrest-ex-apple-employee-for-stealing-self-driving-car-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/fbi-arrest-ex-apple-employee-for-stealing-self-driving-car-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI arrest ex-Apple employee for stealing self-driving car secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7519\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7519 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/27125545\/lexussuvselfdriving2-800x511-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: MacRumors.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>A former Apple employee has been charged in federal court with stealing trade secrets from the company, authorities said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In something straight out of a bad Mission Impossible script former Apple engineer Xiaolang Zhang was arrested as he attempted to leave the US via San Jose International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang is alleged to have stolen data and hardware related to Apple&#8217;s highly secretive self-driving car project ahead of a new job with China&#8217;s electric car startup\u00a0Guangzhou Xiaopeng Motors Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang has admitted to using AirDrop to transfer documents to his wife&#8217;s laptop and has been filmed on CCTV leaving the lab with equipment whilst supposedly on paternity leave.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2018\/07\/10\/former-apple-employee-charged-with-stealing-company-trade-secrets\/\">San Jose: Ex-Apple employee charged with stealing trade secrets<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Apple employee has been charged in federal court with stealing trade secrets from the company, authorities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}