Ex-Google Engineer Convicted for Stealing 2,000 AI Trade Secrets for China Startup
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A former Google engineer was convicted for stealing over 2,000 AI trade secrets to benefit a Chinese startup, facing charges of economic espionage and theft.
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Source: The Hacker News
A former Google engineer accused of stealing thousands of the company's confidential documents to build a startup in China has been convicted in the U.S., the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Jan. 29. Linwei Ding (aka Leon Ding), 38, was convicted by a federal jury on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets for taking over 2,000 documents containing the tech giant's trade secrets related to artificial intelligence (AI) technology for the benefit of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Ding was indicted in Mar. 2024 for transferring sensitive proprietary information from Google's network to his personal Google Cloud account. Full Story